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 Yoshitaroh 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 . . .