三毛猫ホームズの感傷旅行

三毛猫ホームズ #12

by Jirō Akagawa

「トイレに行ってくるから、あの女を見張っててくれ」警視庁の片山は、顔見知りの刑事に見張りの代役を頼まれた。女は、二十四、五歳でなかなかの美人。……と、女は動き出し、仕方なく片山は後を追って列車に乗った。ところが、なんとその列車には、晴美や石津、ホームズまでが乗っていて……。大ヒットシリーズ、絶好調の傑作集！

294 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 25, 1986

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.