The grand-prize work of the Kita City Yasuo Uchida Mystery Literary Award. The title suggests an alchemical mystery set in a dreamlike alley, but no standalone publication has been confirmed.

A title evoking a dream alley and alchemy opens the way into a short mystery.

A Kita City mayor’s award work. Official commentary describes it as a story with a sad ending, suggesting a short mystery centered on a summer shared by Yuka and Jajamaru.

Beyond the brightness of summer, a bittersweet ending waits.

A humane Edo-period mystery set in the Meiwa era, featuring Osen of Kagiya, the tea-serving girl of Kasamori Inari, whose sharp reasoning uncovers crime. Against the backdrop of Harunobu Suzuki’s beauties and Edo customs, she pursues the deeper wrong behind each case.

Amid Edo scenes like a Harunobu print, Osen of Kagiya sees through wrongdoing.