三毛猫ホームズの安息日

三毛猫ホームズ #26

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

宝くじが当たった!?運良く分け前にありついた片山は、その賞金で夕食会を催そうと計画する。しかし、お楽しみの安息日となるはずだった一日に、片山はひょんなことから東京名所巡りの観光バスで殺人犯と同乗する羽目に。一方、晴美も現金強奪事件に巻きこまれてしまい、石津はショールームで死体発見。そのときホームズは借金苦で一家心中を図る親子と死への道行きを共にしていて…。とんでもない事件に同時進行で巻き込まれてしまった三人と一匹。はたして全員集合はなるのか?大人気「三毛猫シリーズ」第二十六弾。

301 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 1994

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.