三毛猫ホームズの証言台

三毛猫ホームズ #51

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

〈S商事〉社長の千葉典子が殺された。夫の克茂が殺人容疑で逮捕されるが、出会い系サイトで知り合った森川礼子の証言で無罪となる。社長の座を引き継いだ克茂は礼子と結婚する。片山のお見合い相手の加賀涼子は、車にひかれかけた辻川友世をかばって怪我をし、辻川夫妻や片山たちと〈高原ホテル〉で療養することに。そこに辻川夫妻の友人である千葉夫妻も同宿することになるが……。片山＆ホームズが活躍の大人気シリーズ第51弾！

Paperback Bunko

First published December 15, 2016

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.