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Edogawa Ranpo Award えどがわらんぽしょう

Edition 21 (1975)

Literary awardMystery novel

Winners

1 people
Keisuke Kusaka くさか けいすけ award

After mistakenly taking someone else's bag while travelling, a person finds a letter inside. The woman who wrote it died three years earlier, and its intended recipient is dead as well. As the mystery of correspondence between the dead is pursued, the outline of a terrible past event emerges.

A letter addressed from one dead person to another calls a forgotten event back into view.

378 pages
Letters from the deadA mistaken bagSecrets of the pastChance while travellingClassical detective fiction