Japanese Mystery

In The Japanese Mystery of Love and Death Is Full of Suspicion, the serene beauty of Japan serves as the backdrop for a riveting tale of passion, treachery, and mortality.

Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive lost recipes and rekindle forgotten memories.

In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied.

As they do every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote castle-like Water Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived his life behind a rubber mask ever since a disfiguring car accident. This year, however, the visit is disrupted by an impossible disappearance, the theft of a painting, and a series of baffling murders. The brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada arrives to investigate.

Japanese folklore is abundant with tales of ghostly creatures and the supernatural. In Haunted Japan, author Catrien Ross reveals the legends that have been passed down for generations and continue to terrify us today.

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa - never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations.

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G. I.’s prodding, he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime.

Danger awaits best friends on the island of Malta, where one will be accused of murder and the other of being a spy on the run. A missing journalist cannot tell the world he is still alive by becoming a mystery writer's alibi. When Hiromi came back to Paris to settle an old score, she had no idea her target might be hiding on the island of Malta. But, now, she has a chance to redeem her reputation by neutralizing a rogue agent and capturing the mystery writer who hides agency secrets in his novels.

Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, and curmudgeonly gardener Mas Arai finds himself embroiled in a murder. A Japanese tabloid writer drops dead on the field, and Mas gave the victim his last drink. It turns out there's more at stake than a baseball championship - international diplomacy depends upon uncovering secrets buried decades ago.

ケネス・ブラナー監督・主演映画「名探偵ポアロ　ベネチアの亡霊」の原作が新訳で登場

Award-winning novelist Michael Pronko examines Tokyo as a place, a culture, and a series of intense experiences, with humor, delicacy, and enchantment. More than just a setting for novels and films, Tokyo is a lively, interactive space that constantly pops up questions: How do you sweat politely, in Tokyo’s sweltering summers? How do you glance sideways, on crowded trains? How do homeowners transform a sliver of space into an impeccable garden? The answers are not what one might expect.

元子を恨む波子は楢林と別れ、大物総会屋をパトロンにクラブを開く。政治家秘書の安島を通じ、医大の裏口入学者のリストを手中にした元子は、橋田をおどし、一流クラブ、ルダン買取りの仮契約を結ぶ。

うちの家族、なんか嫌。推理愛がハンパない。謎と事件好きの猫河原家。今夜も家族全員、殺人事件をめぐって、夕食前に迷推理を披露する。これも「推理せざる者、食うべからず」の家訓ゆえ。

ご存じトラベルミステリーの傑作・十津川警部シリーズが生まれて３０有余年、本作において、その命名の由来となった奈良県・十津川村に警部が初めて足跡を印した。世界遺産の村を巻き込んだ殺人事件の謎に

『理由（わけ）あって冬に出る』の幽霊騒ぎ直前、高校一年の一月に、映研とパソ研の間で起こった柳瀬さんの取り合いを描く「不正指令電磁的なんとか」。

A family had an experience and finally lost their child. This true story presents their incredible haunted experience.

Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil - as Jonathan will discover after he accidentally gets a trace of his blood on its surface in this disturbing tale of terror.

講談師の旭堂南湖が贈る古典怪談。名調子で語る「日本の怪談」ここにあり。

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郷田三郎はこの世の全てに面白さを感じることが無く退屈しきっていた。

「次の瞬間紀昌の様子は一変して神速の技をみせるのではないかという恐怖が男を戦慄させました。 ・・・・」