Seven Testimonies, Perfect Exoneration?

A murder broke out on the streets of Tokyo. Based on on-site investigation and witness testimony, the police arrested the suspect Nobuo Saeki and sentenced the young man to nine years in prison. Soon, Saeki died of illness in prison. A year later, Saeki's father plundered seven witnesses related to the case to an isolated island. He carefully built a street scene of the crime scene to verify the authenticity of the testimony one by one. Under the witness of the detective Totsukawa who was brought to the island together, the case was restored bit by bit, and there seemed to be no sign of overturning the case until a witness was suddenly killed...

Five short stories, urban legend × psychological thriller × depressive reasoning, write about the undercurrent of human nature. "Greedy Sheep": Beautiful sisters with very different personalities live in a mansion. Their lovers frequently disappear, their grandmothers are tortured to death, and their parents die of illness one after another. In the end, they became the murderer and the victim of a murder. "The Immoral Sheep": Daisuke Shinoda inherited his father's company. Although he encountered business difficulties, with the help of his perfect wife, Sheep, he believed that everything would be solved. Until one day, he noticed that his son looked more and more like his friend's children. "Sheep on Sleepless Nights": Komuro Tazi, who depends on her mother for life, suffers from insomnia. One long night, she dreamed that she impulsively killed her friend. The next day, at the old friend's corpse park, the exciting killing in the dream came true. "Stockholm Sheep": Four maids have loyally served the prince imprisoned in a high tower for many years. Unexpectedly, the intrusion of a foreign princess broke their peaceful life. Sacrificial Sheep: A hungover female high school student woke up and found herself handcuffed in a public toilet stall. There seemed to be a white-collar worker and a housewife next door. Footsteps sounded, and with screams, the two people next door disappeared one after another. There are many incredible things in the world...

Inference battles, multiple solutions, and continuous reversals. The truth is getting further and further away in the brainstorming. Where is the murderer hiding? Sue, who was almost killed by a strange man, managed to escape death, but had no idea why the murderer wanted to kill her. After investigation, the police found from the notes left by the man that he was most likely the murderer of the random serial murders. Only Sue, the last target, escaped. Since then, the murderer's whereabouts remain unknown. In order to find out why the man attacked her, she commissioned the "Love Mystery Society" to investigate. The members of the Love Mystery Society launched various reasonings based on the clues and evidence they pieced together, but the case became more complicated and confusing... Exclusive collection of "Postscript to the Thirty-Third Year", Yasuhiko Nishizawa's creative reflections.

Who wrote my diary? The 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning work has three narrative perspectives, a Gothic "work within a work", and connects multiple murders. Claire is a high school teacher and an expert on Gothic novelist R. M. Holland. One day, her close friend and colleague suddenly died tragically at home. Next to the body was a line taken from Holland's "The Stranger": "Hell is empty." Claire was surprised to find that her life and the novel she was studying gradually overlapped. The police launched an investigation and suspected that the murderer was an acquaintance of Claire. At a time of crisis and not knowing who to trust, Claire opened her diary and recorded her fears and doubts about the case. But a few days later, she found a sentence in the diary that she had never seen before: Hello Claire, you don't know who I am. Real life and horror novels are intertwined, and the story is given a terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten?

Perfect reasoning, will you identify the real murderer, or fall into a trap? New mystery writer and magician Takahiro Yii, a fantastic masterpiece! The actor Sakuragi, who has retired from the entertainment industry, received an anonymous manuscript, which identified him as the murderer of a serial murder case. That brutal case happened at a "concurrent meeting" that Sakuragi attended. Several friends who had not seen each other for a long time gathered in a villa. Unexpectedly, within three days, three people were strangled one after another. After this party, Sakuragi developed amnesia symptoms and had no memory of what happened in these three days. The manuscript that appeared at this time detailed what happened in those three days, and finally identified him as the murderer... What is the truth?

"In the dark, she touched the bone"... In the basement of the suspended villa area, the police rescued a female college student: the victim was seriously injured and dying, with a matchbox beside her - this was the only clue left by the murderer to the police. Cases followed one after another, and the crimes continued to escalate. In the face of the conspiracy set by the murderer, the task force went astray step by step. Lin Xiangming, Liu Simiao, Lei Rong and other young police elites joined forces and used advanced criminal investigation techniques to gradually get closer to the truth. When everyone thought the case was about to be solved, death appeared in unexpected places...

A sharp-tongued, rule-abiding conspiracy mastermind x a careless maid who claims to be the reincarnation of a famous detective. The "murder plan" without the deceased, the "Jiujiao Pavilion" on the isolated island, the triple reversal, the overly concentrated true soul! Nesara Kazuki is an ardent fan of the late famous mystery novelist Hoarsha, and claims to be the reincarnation of the famous detective Oirase Ryuusei. She currently works as a maid at the Phoenix Hall, the memorial hall of Hougasha. However, everyone in the Feng family seems to be at odds with each other, and the four children have a grudge against each other. The eldest son Chun Mo finds the conspirator Jackal and attempts to kill his sister Bai Xue. In order to prevent it, Feng Ga persuades Jackal to implement a new plan that does not require actual killing. However, on the day of the operation, accidents occurred frequently, and people were actually killed one after another...

An impossible crime happened in a special hotel, and the detective had to leave the hotel to solve the case immediately. In this hotel, the law is not the criterion. You can still be protected if you commit a crime, but you must abide by: ① Do not damage the hotel ② Do not harm anyone within the hotel. Once the above rules are violated, the hotel's exclusive detective will come out to investigate and get to the bottom of it. This book contains several incidents that took place in this hotel and shows how hotel detectives uncovered the real culprits from the best in the criminal field. Following "Visitor from the Lonely Island" and "Sweet Death for the Detective", this is a collection of short stories by the emerging novelist Takahiro Takahiro.

Tomii, a university professor and mystery writer, encountered a mysterious oil painting in a Zurich gallery. It was the work of Hoshino Yasuo, a Japanese painter active in France. The gallery owner was entrusted by Hoshino and handed over letters, photos and a notebook to Tomii. Germany after the war. In a snowstorm, I came to a villa where reasoning enthusiasts from all over the world were holding a reasoning competition. In the process of challenging to solve "The Mystery of the English Shoe", the owner of the villa, Eichenbach, was murdered in the secret room of the attic, and the key to the mystery lies in the question chapter... The Hindenburg airship accident, the Battle of Waterloo, Wagner's "Parsifal", "Gregorian Chant", Sherlock Holmes and Nightingale... Tomii embarked on a journey to find the "Messenger" and faced the maze of majestic mysteries.

A few short stories about the popular killer and detective Kurosawa. In recent days, vicious killings have occurred frequently in society. The deceased had their neck bones broken and died in strange ways. Public opinion circles dubbed the murderer the "Broken Neck Man" and drew a portrait through eyewitness testimony. When the old couple saw the "murderer's portrait" posted on TV, they suddenly became suspicious of the young man living next door, and began to follow... Is the young man next door a vicious neck-breaking man? Will a couple who have lived a peaceful life encounter a sensational event in their later years? Readers' favorite Kurosawa is once again involved in the incident in a strange way, and this time, he seems to be being tricked...