三毛猫ホームズの闇将軍

三毛猫ホームズ #49

by Jirō Akagawa

片山刑事の妹・晴美は、友人・堺紀美江が殺されたことを知る。彼女と面識のあった沖野のぞみは、ゴミ袋から1億円の札束を手に入れ、その金で起業するが、事情を知る人物から脅迫を受ける。命じられるまま、パーティ会場で、手紙をある経営者のポケットに忍ばせたところ、手紙を読んだ男は壇上の都知事候補者を狙撃してしまう!!　「闇将軍」という謎の組織の陰謀を、片山兄妹＆ホームズが暴く！　大ベストセラーのシリーズ第49弾。

347 pages, Paperback

First published June 12, 2013

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.