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A Game of Cat and Killer
"Think Agatha Christie with claws" A.J. Finn
Series: The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes
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"Murder mystery fans and cat lovers get ready for an iconic new series" Janice Hallet "Think Agatha Christie with claws" A.J. Finn "You can absolutely see why Jiro Akagawa is such a staple of Japanese crime fiction" Kristen Perrin Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many...
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The first novel in one of the most beloved crime series of all time - more than 30 million copies of the Mikeneko Holmes books sold in Japan
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"Murder mystery fans and cat lovers get ready for an iconic new series" Janice Hallet
"Think Agatha Christie with claws" A.J. Finn
"You can absolutely see why Jiro Akagawa is such a staple of Japanese crime fiction" Kristen Perrin
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 when 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 of 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
Series: The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes
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"Murder mystery fans and cat lovers get ready for an iconic new series" Janice Hallet "Think Agatha Christie with claws" A.J. Finn "You can absolutely see why Jiro Akagawa is such a staple of Japanese crime fiction" Kristen Perrin Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and... women. When a young female student is found...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
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ISBN: 9781529451887
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Illustration: N/A
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Jiro Akagawa is one of Japan's most prolific and celebrated mystery writers. In a career that spans several decades, he has sold more than 330 million copies of his books, and won many prestigious awards including the Japan Mystery Literature Award and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature. Many of his books have been adapted for film and TV, including his beloved Mikeneko Holmes series, which recounts the adventures of a detective and his adopted cat.
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