“Green-sha no Kodomo” is a Nakamura Garaku story in which an encounter with a strange child in a train’s Green Car turns an ordinary journey into a mystery.

A child seated nearby on a journey leads the veteran actor into an unexpected mystery.

Nihon Tantei Sakkaron is a critical study of prewar Japanese detective writers, reading figures such as Edogawa Rampo, Yokomizo Seishi, and Yumeno Kyusaku through both strangeness and literary force.

It probes the darkness and appeal of the writers who shaped Japanese detective fiction.