三毛猫ホームズの裁きの日

三毛猫ホームズ #53

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

片山刑事たちは目の前で起きた一家心中から浜中美咲という少女を助け出すも、美咲は姿をくらませてしまう。美咲の父は〈B食品〉に勤めていたが、会社の不正を告発した結果、裏切り者として報復を受けていた。その頃、美咲の父を追い込んだ元上司・室田雄作の不倫相手が死体となって発見され、雄作は逃亡を始める。さらに女優の刈谷京香は記憶を失ったという美咲と出会うのだが……。国民的ヒットシリーズ第53弾！

Paperback Shinsho

First published November 30, 2019

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.