三毛猫ホームズの花嫁人形 新装版

三毛猫ホームズ #37

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

２６歳の浅井啓子（あさいけいこ）は、翌々日にハワイでの挙式を控えていた。しかし、なじみのお店で片山晴美（かたやまはるみ）と知り合った後の帰り道で、何者かに刺殺されてしまう。横たわる遺体の上には折紙で作られた花嫁人形が！　同様の花嫁人形は、大女優・草刈（くさかり）まどかの婚約会見の直後にも発見され、さらに第二、第三の殺人現場にも。片山兄妹とホームズが辿り着いた真相とは！？

Paperback Bunko

First published April 25, 2001

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.