三色貓好敵手

三毛猫ホームズ #29

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎, 葉蕙 (Translator)

康男と茂は、小学生の時からのライバル同士。同じ中学、高校、大学へと進み、２人は常にトップの座を競い合ってきた。しかし30歳を越えた今、康男は若くして一流企業の社長となり、茂は康男に雇われている平社員。２人のライバルの運命を分けた出来事とは、一体何だったのか──？　三毛猫ホームズにも灰色・縞模様の「ライバル猫」が登場!?　大人気シリーズ第29弾！

257 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

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.