Advertising balloons from department stores, the waterline of a private sailboat, spring steel strips from a shipyard, a heavy old locomotive: in Keikichi Osaka's novels, these cold objects all have a language of their own.
Corpses cannot speak, but bloodstains on a rope, clay on a ship's hull, crows on the ice, and bait beside the railway tracks can all bear witness.
This book collects six detective stories. Through precise observations of the crime scenes and bold physical tricks, it reconstructs a series of seemingly unsolvable deaths. The ingenious mechanisms are astonishing, but the secrets hidden in the human heart are darker still.
When the machinery starts turning, who is controlling it, and who will ultimately die as a result of their own plan?
