三毛猫ホームズの犯罪学講座 「三毛猫ホームズ」シリーズ (角川文庫)

三毛猫ホームズ #20

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

栗原捜査一課長の代理として、Ｆ女子大学で３日間の特別講義をする羽目に陥った片山義太郎。女性恐怖症に耐えながら、しどろもどろで１日目を終えたところ、意外にも女子大生から大人気。ところが２日目の講義の真っ最中、天井から鎖で吊るされた女の子の死体がおりてきた！　それをきっかけに、謎の連続殺人が……。名門お嬢様学校を舞台に、ホームズの推理が冴えわたる！　三毛猫シリーズ第20弾。

361 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 30, 1991

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.