三毛猫ホームズの犯罪学講座

三毛猫ホームズ #20

by Jirō Akagawa

Ｆ学園大学の裏手にある女子学生会館の非常階段から男子学生・春日が墜落死した。その夜、警視庁の片山刑事の自宅に「春日は殺された」という不審な電話が！？　翌日、片山は課長の代理で、なんとＦ大で三日間の特別講義をするはめになる。その二日目、講義の最中に、天井から鎖でつるされた女の子の死体が下りて来て……！　三毛猫ホームズが女子大を舞台に名推理！

420 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.