三毛猫ホームズの十字路

三毛猫ホームズ #45

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

友人・絵美の別れ話に立ち会った晴美。男は意趣返しに絵美のアパートに爆弾を仕掛けた。巻き添えをくった晴美は目が見えなくなってしまう。片山は犯人の母親を尾行し、団地に行き着く。そこでは、幼女を襲う犯罪が多発していた。団地をパトロール中の元刑事が、誤って無実の男を殺してしまう。さらに爆破犯の姉が死体で発見され…。様々に交錯する事件の結末は!?長編推理小説。

328 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 2009

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.