三毛猫ホームズの登山列車

三毛猫ホームズ #14

by Jirō Akagawa

アルプスの観光地・ユングフラウヨッホを訪れた三毛猫ホームズ一行。登山列車に乗って展望台に登った。片山は、そこで氷河を滑り落ちかけた日本人女性観光客を救出！　その女性・多田靖子の姉は、結婚式の当日、婚約者に逃げられたのを苦に自殺していた。ところが靖子は、このヨーロッパで姉をふった男を発見して……！

Paperback Shinsho

First published November 25, 1987

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.