三毛猫ホームズと愛の花束

三毛猫ホームズ #15

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

結婚相談所〈Kブライダルセンター〉に届いた１通の脅迫状。そしてその直後、センターで働く女性が射殺され、死体の上には花束が……。捜査に乗り出した片山兄妹は上司の指令でお見合いパーティに出席。妹・晴美と熱烈恋愛中の石津刑事も泣く泣く付き合うが、やはり頼りになるのは三毛猫ホームズ。片山が女性と２人きりになっている間に、パーティに凶悪な男が乱入する……。超人気シリーズの第15弾！

Paperback Shinsho

First published January 25, 1988

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.