Torii, a top-performing sales rep, is forced into the sales division of a murder-for-hire company in this high-speed mystery. After stumbling into a murder scene, he is given an impossible quota of 200 million yen in two weeks and must survive by turning his sales pitch and quick thinking against assassins.

The quota is 200 million yen in two weeks. Fail, and hell is waiting.

Set in late-Edo Yokohama and the brothel district of Kozukiyoshi, this is a full-scale mystery that follows Isa as she investigates the truth behind her father’s death. The novel blends political intrigue, the world of the licensed quarter, and her relationship with the British naval officer Mason into a story with both historical weight and strong momentum.

To clear her father’s name, Isa goes straight into Yukaku Island.

When popular idol Sota Omine places highly at a bodybuilding competition after only three months of training, accusations of doping spread across social media. Rookie journalist Kentaro Matsumura is assigned to go undercover at the gym at the center of the scandal, plunging him into a world where muscle and deception intersect. Winner of the 70th Edogawa Rampo Prize.

In an era of rampant fakes, the story of truth begins.

An undercover mystery following a professional baseball player’s transformation and doping suspicion.

Chasing truth in an age flooded with fakes.

In a world heading toward the end after an asteroid impact, Koharu finds a body in a trunk during driving lessons and takes on the final mystery with a former detective instructor. A Edogawa Rampo Prize-winning novel about humanity’s last serial murder case.

Her twisted justice and my hope remain in a world on the brink of collapse.

This police novel follows Rikiko Sawamura, who joined the Hokkaido Prefectural Police after earning a doctoral degree, as she confronts a five-year-old abduction case and the suspicion surrounding a leaked investigation file. Its strengths lie in the drive of the unresolved mystery and the layered portrayal of institutional friction and personal conflict.

Rikiko Sawamura steps into the truth buried beneath an unresolved case.

A debt collection officer at a city bank dies suddenly from anaphylactic shock, leaving behind a cryptic remark. His colleague Iki, who once loved the deceased's wife, stands alone against the dark secrets hidden within the bank. This is Ikeido Jun's debut novel, winner of the 44th Edogawa Rampo Prize.

A suspense novel set against the world of television news, following the gap between images and truth. A whistleblower tape leads the protagonist into her own trap.

Images do not always reflect the truth.

An explosion in Shinjuku Central Park sets a man, who has hidden his past for decades, back into motion. Hard-boiled tension and melancholy run together throughout.

An explosion brings back the past he tried to bury.

A legal suspense novel set against prosecutorial investigations and the justice system.

The truth is pursued from inside the prosecutor’s office.

A short story that uses shifts in gaze and desire to depict the unease of an urban, image-saturated world and the strangeness of the body.

It is visible, yet unreachable.

Set in a postwar, desertified world, this science-fiction fantasy follows a journey centered on a divine machine shell and a sleeping girl.

A sleeping girl and a divine machine shell set a boy’s journey in motion.

白き煉獄 is recorded as a prize work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

Details about 白き煉獄 remain in award records.

A literary work that follows the small dissonances and emotional shifts hidden beneath everyday life through 川沿いの町.

It carefully gathers the tiny shifts within everyday life.

The first entry in the Murano Miro series, this hard-boiled novel depicts crime and violence through a woman’s perspective.

A sharp hard-boiled novel that opens the Murano Miro series.

リセット is recorded as a prize work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

Details about リセット remain in award records.

A mystery centered on 零れる闇, in which events and secrets gradually come to light.

Quiet dissonance gradually shapes the outline of the case.

A short story whose folk-tale atmosphere lets the strange and the murderous collide.

A kappa story does not end as a joke.

A long-form mystery in which a legal investigation and courtroom tension overlap with the shadows of a crime scene.

Will the truth emerge beyond the nighttime verification?

慟哭の錨――関門海峡シージャック事件 is recorded as a prize work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

Details about 慟哭の錨――関門海峡シージャック事件 remain in award records.

A mystery grounded in medical knowledge. It won the 38th Edogawa Rampo Award in 1992 and is marked by a tense hospital setting.

At the end of the white corridor, the mysteries hidden in medical practice begin to unwind.

ヘルン先生行状記 is recorded as a prize work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

Details about ヘルン先生行状記 remain in award records.

A mystery centered on 村正殺人事件, in which events and secrets gradually come to light.

Quiet dissonance gradually shapes the outline of the case.

A hard-boiled mystery about a former food inspector who digs into the black market in radiation-contaminated food.

As he traces the flow of contaminated food, the truth leads him into the shadows of politics and business.

A full-scale mystery built around a series of murders that begin at a kendo tournament. It blends the intensity of the sport with a classic puzzle-driven investigation.

Within the heat of the arena, hidden motives gradually link the clues into a murder case.

A full-length detective novel set against the backdrop of the late Cold War. It combines international tension with a suspenseful investigation into a vast conspiracy.

As the world moves toward détente, a single case begins to reveal the shape of an international conspiracy.

Set in Asakusa in the early Showa era, this locked-room mystery revolves around Enoken's troupe and the theater world. Historical drama and classic mystery fit neatly together.

Theater, a locked room, and the atmosphere of early Showa Asakusa all come alive together.

Recorded as a candidate work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed. Award records are the safest way to trace it.

Since no book edition could be confirmed, this is a work best traced through award records.

Recorded as a candidate work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed. Its outline is best traced through award lists and records.

The bibliographic record remains, but no standalone book edition could be traced.

Recorded as a candidate work, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed. It is best treated as a magazine-based award record.

Since no book edition could be confirmed, this is a work best traced through award records.

Told through a young man racing through Yokohama at night as he pursues the truth behind his mother’s death and a crime, the novel combines Rampo Award-style suspense with the feel of a fast-moving coming-of-age story. Its driving structure leaves a strong impression.

Riding a Z2, the young man chases the truth.

A classic police novel set in Shanghai, it intertwines detectives’ investigations with the mystery of a coded message. Against the backdrop of the city’s atmosphere and social texture, the story builds toward a tightly wound climax.

A code on the investigation trail at the Shanghai Public Security Bureau draws the story toward catastrophe.

One of the 1987 Edogawa Rampo Award finalists. Amazon JP, the NDL OPAC, and the publisher’s official site were checked, but no standalone book publication of the work could be confirmed.

A 1987 finalist for which no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

The 1987 Edogawa Rampo Award finalist Shanghai Catastrophe. I checked Amazon JP, the NDL OPAC, and the publisher’s official site, but could not confirm a standalone book matching the finalist’s author; only a different-author book with the same title was found.

A 1987 finalist for which no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

One of the 1987 Edogawa Rampo Award finalists. Amazon JP, the NDL OPAC, and the publisher’s official site were checked, but no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

A 1987 finalist for which no standalone book publication could be confirmed.

A full-length novel that begins with two girls sold into a Yokohama brothel and unfolds into a chain of murders and secrets in an early-Shōwa pleasure quarter. It was published as the winner of the 32nd Edogawa Rampo Award.

In a city of pleasure, desire and death bare their fangs before two girls thrown into its depths.

Recorded as a candidate for the 32nd Edogawa Rampo Award, but no standalone book edition could be found after checking Amazon Japan, the NDL, and the publisher's official sources in that order.

No book edition could be confirmed.

Recorded as a candidate for the 32nd Edogawa Rampo Award, but no standalone book edition could be found after checking Amazon Japan, the NDL, and the publisher's official sources in that order.

No book edition could be confirmed.

The Edogawa Rampo Award candidate work Taiga no Satsui was later retitled and published as Tenno no Fune. It is a mystery that connects incidents in Japan and Brazil while tracing the shadows of Japanese immigrant history.

In its retitled form, memories of migration and the mystery of the case are drawn onto a single line.

Recorded as a candidate for the 32nd Edogawa Rampo Award, but no standalone book edition could be found after checking Amazon Japan, the NDL, and the publisher's official sources in that order.

No book edition could be confirmed.

Set at a girls' school, this school mystery begins with the death of a guidance teacher and widens into suspicion before moving on to a second murder during a costume parade. The shifting gazes and relationships among the suspects create tension alongside the atmosphere of youth.

Two murders inside a closed school gradually strip away the face of everyday life.

Using a coded score hidden in Mozart's lullaby, this music-history mystery follows Beethoven as he takes on the riddle of Mozart's death. With disciples and Schubert drawn into the investigation, the brilliance and humanity of the composers cross paths in a light, playful way.

Beethoven pursues the code hidden in the score.

An Edogawa Rampo Prize-winning novel that follows the mystery of a village taboo and murder through the lens of a fated daughter.

It probes the mystery of a murder in a taboo-bound village.

A full-length mystery that combines the pursuit of Sharaku’s identity with ukiyo-e scholarship and leads into the puzzle of a murder case.

The hunt for Sharaku’s identity gradually leads into a murder mystery.

A suspense novel about murders at a ranch in Tohoku and a secret that shakes the horse-racing world.

A racing-world mystery with a buried secret.

A social-issue mystery about suspicion and intrigue surrounding the construction of a nuclear power plant.

A dark mystery of power and suspicion.

As the true identity of the legendary poet Sarumaru Tayu is sought, unexpected facts emerge before a young Orikuchi Shinobu as he investigates the death of a friend. It is an intellectually layered mystery that blends ancient poetry and folklore studies.

The shadow of a legendary poet brings a friend’s death into focus.

Set in a seaside town in the summer of 1970, the novel follows ‘I,’ who has returned home, along with his friend the Rat and a girl he meets by chance, using their drifting days to depict the uncertainty and sense of loss of youth in a dry, spare style. It is Haruki Murakami’s debut novel.

That summer wind passed by, languid and bittersweet.

A group of university students in the 1970s takes on a string of murders of high school girls inside a TV station. Against the backdrop of youth culture and mindset, the novel blends the atmosphere of coming-of-age with mystery.

A coming-of-age mystery in which a band of friends pursues a case inside a TV station.

"暗黒告知" is a prize-winning work first presented in this award context.

Tracing the work's publication history through "暗黒告知".

"アルキメデスは手を汚さない" is a prize-winning work first presented in this award context.

Tracing the work's publication history through "アルキメデスは手を汚さない".

A young medical student, Mori Ōgai, studying abroad in Berlin becomes entangled in the murder of a count. Against the backdrop of a double-locked-room puzzle and the shadow of Bismarck, the novel connects historical atmosphere with detective logic.

In the fog of 19th-century Berlin, a medical student traces the shape of the case.

The daughter of the shogi prodigy Shingo Kawabe is kidnapped, and the match and the hunt for the culprit unfold at the same time. It is a thrilling award-winning novel that fuses the tension of a title match with the course of the case.

The next move may decide a daughter's fate.

A couple on a date stumbles upon a murder, and a newspaper reporter pursues the meaning of the victim's final word, "Ten." The novel races toward the darkness behind the case with brisk, propulsive structure.

The single word "Ten" leads the case into another shape.

A body is found in front of the bear cage at Inokashira Park, and the shadow of war crimes and a new-religion badge tie the case together. It is an unusual full-scale mystery where an unexpected culprit and a heavy theme coexist.

Bear claw marks and a religious badge bring the postwar darkness into view.

A managing director at an insulation-material company is killed, and suspicion falls on a lonely young man from the Tohoku region who feels isolated at work. By layering urban alienation and the mismatches of the investigation, the novel firmly establishes itself as a social mystery.

One young man's loneliness changes the way the case is seen.

Set in a building reminiscent of the Dōjunkai Otsuka Women's Apartments, the story follows a series of strange incidents in the lives of its elderly female residents. When construction begins, the past that had been sealed away gradually comes to the surface in this suspense novel.

The apartment master key unlocks the past that had been sealed away.

Soon after a wealthy overseas Chinese businessman visits Kobe, a Chinese loan shark is murdered, and the detective Tao Zhanwen closes in on the core of the case through calm, methodical reasoning. Even as a debut novel, it stands out for its dry prose, humor, and mature human observation.

In Kobe's Chinese community, quiet deduction brings the case into focus.

Around the university student Takayuki Sera, poison, a hidden birth secret, his father's death, and a will all converge into a chain of unsettling events. As the search for the culprit turns toward a staged suicide, the novel carefully traces both the fragility of youth and the killer's psychology.

Behind the packet of poison, a young man's everyday life quietly begins to collapse.