三毛猫ホームズの騒霊騒動

三毛猫ホームズ #16

by Jirō Akagawa

片山と妹の晴美、石津と三毛猫ホームズは、久々に自宅で夕食をとっていた。そこへTV局に勤める片山の友人が訪れて、出演を要請。ポルターガイストの起こる屋敷で“有名タレントと1晩を過ごす”という企画に、公平な第三者として参加してほしいというのだ。もちろん晴美とホームズは大乗り気。片山は事件の予感に怯えたが、案の定…。代表的シリーズ16弾

294 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 1988

About the author

Associated Names:
* 赤川次郎 (Japanese & Traditional Chinese)
* อาคากะวา จิโร (Thai)

Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb (ホームタウンの事件簿 私語を禁ず Homu Taun no Jikenbo: Shigo o Kinzu?) and Voice from Heaven (天からの声 Ten kara no Koe?), were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃 Serafuku to Kikanju?) was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko (or Calico cat) Holmes series. He is extremely prolific; as of August 2006, he had written more than 480 novels in the course of his thirty year career, over 300 million individual published volumes.