三毛猫ホームズの回り舞台

三毛猫ホームズ #50

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

“劇団Z”の観劇に赴いた片山兄妹とホームズ。終演後、主宰の土方らと食事をしていたところ、アイドルの安東マリエが「土方は先が長くない」という噂話を耳にしたことを知る。そのマリエの父・拓郎が夜の街で知り合った女子中学生の死に始まる殺意の連鎖。得体の知れぬ犯人は誰だ?大人気シリーズ、堂々の第50弾!短編「三毛猫はジャスミンの香りがお好き」を特別収録。

366 pages, Paperback

First published May 20, 2015

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.