Seven former classmates who once worked on a school newspaper in Aomori try to keep a promise to return home together seven years after graduation by sleeper train. A murder at Ueno Station begins a chain of deaths, and Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei follow the buried past and tangled emotions behind the journey.

A reunion journey aboard the Yuzuru No. 7 sleeper train turns into a series of murders where nostalgia and murderous intent converge.

A short mystery in which Takako Numate, hired as a live-in companion to a wealthy elderly woman, unexpectedly inherits her fortune and is drawn toward the truth behind the death of her mother in childhood. The story combines the elderly woman's keen armchair detection with Takako's buried pain, giving the puzzle a warm human resonance.

An elderly woman in a wheelchair quietly unravels the past concealed within an inheritance and the memory of murder.

This short story follows the hidden truth behind the legend of Sonoda Gakuyo, a celebrated Taisho-era poet who left poems about two failed double suicides that killed the women involved before taking his own life. Lyrical passion and finely shaped mystery converge to reveal the terror of drawing others into love and artistic ambition.

An ambition hidden in songs of ruin turns a tale of double suicide into an unsettling mystery.

A collection of critical essays on spy mystery fiction. Through Cold War politics, the realities and myths of intelligence work, and the mechanics of crime fiction, it examines both the appeal and the limits of the genre.

A critical guide that reads the tensions of its era and the devices of spy fiction through the lens of mystery writing.