Description: 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 . . .