三毛猫ホームズの大改装

三毛猫ホームズ #34

by Jirō Akagawa, 赤川次郎

警視庁の片山刑事は、夜の盛り場で悪い遊びに興じる16歳の女子高生、立石千恵と出会う。その日を境に改心した千恵は、片山刑事の「彼女」になると宣言する。一方、彼女の父で売れっ子漫画家だったみつぐは、マンション改装計画推進に利用されようとしていた。そして同じ頃、窓際編集者の平栗悟士は、雑誌編集長に抜擢され──。３つの“大改装”がホームズたちをとんでもない事件に巻き込むことに！　人気シリーズ第34弾！

Paperback Bunko

First published December 1, 1998

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.