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 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 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 . . .