三毛猫ホームズの恋占い

三毛猫ホームズ #35

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

警視庁の片山刑事は、殺人犯の張り込み中、ベンチに置かれていたハンカチをふと手にした直後、駆け寄ってきた見知らぬ女子高生にいきなりこう言われた──「あなたが、私の夫になる人です」と！　彼女は人気占い師から、ハンカチを拾ってくれた人が運命の人だと予言されたという。女子高生、占い師、そして“運命の人”を結ぶ意外な線をホームズと片山が追う！　表題作はじめ６編を収録した大人気シリーズ第35弾！

Paperback Shinsho

First published July 30, 1999

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.

Reviews

[Annick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mikeneko Holmes no Koiuranai contains 6 short crime stories. There were some recurring characters like Holmes (the calico cat), the detective Katayama (forgot his first name), Katayama's sister Harumi and Katayama's colleague Ishi(d)zu.

Since the stories were quite short, I felt they weren't as interesting as Akagawa Jirou's novels. Once a story started to be quite interesting, it was slowly coming to an end. Also, some changes in side characters seemed a bit too abrupt and that annoyed me a little.

All in all, it's was a fun read, but I enjoy his novels a lot more.