A Game of Cat and Killer: A Novel

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 additi...