三毛猫ホームズの感傷旅行

三毛猫ホームズ #12

by Jirō Akagawa

公園で休憩していた片山義太郎に、知り合いの刑事が声をかけてきた。義太郎がその人の名前を思い出せぬまま、話は進んでいく。その刑事は、尾行途中に便意を感じ、義太郎に尾行を代わってくれ、と頼みにきたのだった。だが、その刑事がトイレに行っている間に、尾行対象の女が動き出してしまう。慌てて後を追う義太郎。女が乗った列車には、同窓会の会場に向かう晴美と、お供の石津、ホームズの一行がいた。

304 pages, Paperback

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.