The Casebooks of Mikeneko Holmes

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...

. . . eventually. But with his resignation letter gathering dust on his boss's desk, he is faced with a case that draws him back in. Two sisters murdered in the same room in the same apartment two years apart. One died almost peacefully, a smile on...

. . . and immediately runs into trouble. A young child is pushed into a pond by an unknown assailant. A witness insists that the culprit is one Tsuneo Ishizawa, the troubled son of the elderly woman who owns the nearby "cat mansion". Before...