A Game of Cat and Killer

Book 0: The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes

by Jiro Akagawa

Genres: Mystery; Animal Cozy Mysteries

Synopsis

Introducing one the most iconic investigative duos in crime fiction - a hapless detective and his capable cat – A Game of Cat and Killer is a must for all readers of Japanese cat fiction and classic crime, written by one of Japan's most beloved novelists. 
 
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 . . .
 

Release date: September 29, 2026

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Print pages: 320