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Mystery Writers of Japan Award にほんすいりさっかきょうかいしょう

Edition 56 (2003)

Mystery novel

Winners

2 people
Mitsufumi Asagure あさぐも さんぶん award

A mystery by Sanmon Asagure with a strong fantastic flavor. Through the strange sensation of entering the inside of stone, the boundary of reality wavers and web-like relationships and enigmas draw the reader in.

The sensation of sinking into stone loosens the outline of reality and spreads a web-like mystery.

202 pages
fantastic mysteryunstable realityspidersclaustrophobia
Arisugawa Arisu ありすがわ ありす award

A classic puzzle mystery in which writer Alice and Hideo Himura encounter a case during a railway journey across the Malay Peninsula. Travel atmosphere, the enclosed space of a train, and logical deduction combine as the mystery takes shape in a foreign landscape.

Amid the atmosphere of a railway journey across the Malay Peninsula, Himura and Alice’s reasoning quietly finds its track.

385 pages
classic puzzle mysteryrail travelHideo Himuraforeign landscape