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This collection of short stories comes from 8 short stories published by Renjo Mikihiko in the magazine "ALL Reading" from 2000 to 2009. Among them, "The Little Foreigner" was Liancheng's last short story in his career. It was published in the same year that he suffered from gastric cancer and shocked the Japanese literary world. This abduction novel uses Renjo Mikihiko's rare children's perspective, creating a playful and warm-hearted work, which has been hailed as a "miracle work". In the second year after Liancheng died of gastric cancer, the publishing house released a collection of selected short stories "Little Foreigners" to the world. It included 8 short stories that had never been published before Liancheng's death. Different themes were selected from his mature writing style. After reading it, you will have a sense of "Liancheng's life condensed". The eight short works are: "The Ring", "Unmanned Station", "Until the Orchids Fade", "Winter Roses", "Miscalculation of the Wind", "White Rain", "Until the End" and "Little Foreigner", depicting eight suspense masterpieces of human nature full of love, hate and suspicion.

Mikihiko Renjo is a collection of exquisite short stories. His work "A Platycodon Flower" won the Mystery Writers Association Award for Short Stories; "Love Letter" won the Naoki Award; "One Night Stand" won the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award for Newcomer; and "The Change of the Two Haori" won the Phantom City Newcomer Award. An emotional story in a modern city. Ambiguous polyamorous relationships are full of temptations. This book contains eight short stories, describing various strange relationships between people in Renjo Mikihiko's unique way. A tip-off phone call from a stranger; two people who died in two places at the same time; an unexplained confession from the person beside the bed; a family from the perspective of "rear window"... Each of the eight stories has its own weirdness, and there are clues buried between the lines. The ending and the truth have to be completed by the readers.

The source of inspiration for Keigo Higashino's "White Night Journey", Kotaro Isaka's number one idol in his writing career! A treasure in the mystery world, the supreme masterpiece of Mikihiko Renjo, the godfather of Japanese mystery literature! Won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and ranked among the top 10 best short stories in the history of Japanese mystery novels! The "Flower Burial" series contains all 8 chapters: platycodon stained with blood, tung coffins hiding corpses, white lotus burning hearts... In the back alleys of flower streets on rainy nights, the platycodon flowers tightly held in the hands of the deceased conceal a morbid confession; in the dark room in early autumn, the scent of tung flowers on a woman becomes a secret message conveying murderous intent; on the returning river under the moon, an infatuated woman The iris beside me declares the lover's malice... Gangsters, geishas, singers, samurai, betrayal, jealousy, paranoia, self-interest... Eight murder cases, eight fatal interpretations of "love", white petals, stained with mud, splashed with blood, a group of madmen struggling in love and hate, who can no longer distinguish between love and murder.

On the night of the rat, the director of a hospital in Setagaya, Tokyo, was called out by a phone call and reappeared as a corpse. The dean was stabbed with a sharp weapon and had two circles of wire wrapped around his neck. He died miserably. What made the police even more confused was that the deceased was wearing a medical white coat, which should have been specially put on by the murderer after his death. Why did the murderer bother to put a white coat on the body after committing the crime? Faceless Portrait: Art University student Yasuhiko Hatano was fascinated by a portrait by the famous painter Ogio Sentaro. He was fascinated by the girl's eyes that seemed to be staring into the abyss of death. Banano did not expect that the painting would be sent to him soon after, and he only needed to accept a task - to participate in an auction under a false identity, and no matter how high the bid was, he had to get a painting. And that painting is an identical portrait of a girl. Hatano felt the conspiracy, but couldn't help but want to touch the secrets in the painting...

Under the clouds of the Cold War, the ghosts of the Nazis reappeared. Tokyo, Paris, Berlin... How will personal choice versus the power of will? In Tokyo, Japan, more than forty years after the end of World War II, painter Aoki met the mysterious German woman Elsa through the matchmaking of his girlfriend. After learning that he might have been born in a German wartime concentration camp, Aoki resolutely chose to follow Elsa to Europe to find her biological parents... In Paris, France, a mysterious noblewoman had been hiding her true identity for many years. She had committed heinous crimes in a wartime concentration camp. After Germany's defeat, she transformed into an upper-class person. Someone discovered her true identity, forcing her to take risks...