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Edogawa Ranpo Award えどがわらんぽしょう

Edition 64 (2018)

Literary awardMystery novel

Winners

1 people
Eiichi Saito さいとう えいいち award

In 2018, a charter plane on a sightseeing flight suffers a systems failure and makes an emergency landing in Antarctica. Tour conductor Takumi Mochizuki and passenger Randy Baker set out for the abandoned Pole of Inaccessibility base in search of supplies. In 1945, at a Japanese naval base on Penang Island, trainee Nobuyuki Hoshino is ordered to take a German scientist and his daughter to a Nazi secret base in Antarctica.

An adventure mystery that brings together an Antarctic survival crisis and a wartime mission to a hidden base.

230 pages
Antarcticaaviation survivalSecond World Warsecret baseadventure mystery