三毛猫ホームズの茶話会

三毛猫ホームズ #44

by Jirō Akagawa

「BSグループ」会長の笹林宗祐が事故死してから一か月。その任を引き継いだ妻の彩子も拳銃で自殺してしまった。宗祐の遺言で、新会長の座に就いたのは二十五歳の川本咲帆。彼女は、宗祐が結婚前に他の女性との間に儲け、海外で暮らしていた娘だった。帰国した咲帆が空港で何者かに襲われる―。大企業の背後に潜む闇に、片山兄妹と名探偵猫・ホームズが迫る。

363 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2008

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.