“I'm curious.” After watching the independent film her class had made for the cultural festival, Eru Chitanda murmured softly. At the end of the film, a victim is found dead inside a locked room in a ruined building, but the film ends abruptly without revealing who the culprit is or how the murder was committed. Curious to know what happens next, Chitanda and her friends, including Houtarou Oreki, set out to uncover the ending.
