三毛猫ホームズの花嫁人形 新装版 (光文社文庫)

三毛猫ホームズ #37

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

片山晴美（かたやまはるみ）は、結婚式を挙げるため、明後日にハワイに旅立つ浅井啓子（あさいけいこ）とケーキの美味しいお店で知り合う。その帰り道、啓子は何者かに刺殺されてしまう。遺体の上には、折紙で作られた花嫁人形が置かれていた。さらに、挙式を控えた女性の命を奪う事件が立て続けに起こる。現場には必ず花嫁人形が……。殺人鬼の正体と殺意の動機を、片山兄妹とホームズが暴く！

264 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 25, 2001

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.