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 murders don’t stop, and soon Katayama has a different surprise on his hands: a calico cat named Holmes, orphaned her owner falls victim. Surely that’s the last thing Katayama needs. Until Holmes begins to display some uncanny investigative instincts of her own . . . Introducing one the most iconic investigative duos in crime fiction – a hapless detective and his capable cat – The Deductions of Mikeneko Holmes is a must for all readers of Japanese cat fiction and classic crime. Translated from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell
