Introducing
an iconic investigative duo—a hapless detective and his capable cat—in this
must-read by one of Japan’s most beloved novelists of crime fiction.
Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights,
dark spaces, blood and … women. When a young female student is found murdered,
he’s given two choices—review the harrowing crime-scene photographs or head to
Hagoromo Women’s College to investigate—and reluctantly opts for the latter.
But the threat escalates with additional murders, and soon
Katayama has a different surprise on his hands: a calico cat named Holmes,
orphaned when the dean himself falls victim.
Surely that’s the last thing Katayama needs. Until Holmes begins
to display some uncanny investigative instincts of her own …
