A classic puzzle mystery in which visitors to a clock-filled mansion in Kamakura are surrounded by a past death and present murderous intent. The clocks support themes of time, memory, and revenge.

In a mansion of stopped time, a past tragedy begins to sound as new murderous intent.

A mystery that begins when a young man who witnesses a fatal accident meets a boy with psychic powers. As the truth is pursued, the loneliness of those with unusual abilities and social unease come into focus.

A boy’s words open the darkness around an accident and illuminate the loneliness of someone with unseen power.

A substantial critical study that reads American detective fiction through literary history, social history, and a critique of Americanism. It overlays the genre’s forms with histories of nation, city, violence, and solitude.

It reads the depths of American literature and society through the form of detective fiction.