三毛猫ホームズの四季

三毛猫ホームズ #18

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

「それで──誰が夏子姉さんを殺すの？」──中華料理店の一室で張り込み中の片山刑事の耳に飛び込んできた、聞き捨てならない言葉。隣の個室では笠倉家の姉妹三人とその夫たちが食事中だった。ただの冗談だろうと気にとめなかった片山だが、数日後、海に落ちた車の中から笠倉夏子の死体が発見された！　裕福で恵まれているはずの笠倉家で、一体何があったのか？　ホームズ、片山、晴美、石津、お馴染みの登場人物が勢揃い。超人気シリーズ第18弾！

Paperback Shinsho

First published January 31, 1990

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.