Rita Maxil

Jiro Akagawa is one of Japan's most prolific and celebrated mystery writers. In a career that spans several decades, he has sold more than 330 million copies of his books, and won many prestigious awards including the Japan Mystery Literature Award and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature. 

Many of his books have been adapted for film and TV, including his beloved Mikeneko Holmes series, which recounts the adventures of a detective and his adopted cat.