First-year high school student Mato Imoriya, renowned for her strength in competition, is drawn into a series of unusual games, beginning with a contest for the right to use the school festival rooftop. Under original rules that transform Glico, concentration, rock-paper-scissors, daruma-san ga koronda, and poker, Mato reads her opponents and finds paths to victory through logic. This linked mystery collection combines youth drama with cerebral contests across five games.

Familiar children's games become full-fledged contests of logic and strategy.

Set on Yonaguni Island under U.S. occupation after the Second World War, this historical hard-boiled novel follows Jun Buteni, a smuggler drawn into a baffling commission and a case involving a former military policeman. Grounded in the histories of the Ryukyus and Taiwan, it imagines an island where desire and conspiracy converge through a cyberpunk lens.

On an occupied island sustained by smuggling, a single commission opens the door to a conspiracy that reaches far beyond its shores.

In prewar Japan, a young woman named Shuko attends a Japanese typewriter school, where she meets her classmate Koeko and Lin Jianzhong, a Chinese teacher and exceptionally skilled typist. As she learns about the machine's characters and keystrokes, Shuko comes to admire Lin, but he eventually disappears.

A historical mystery tracing the disappearance of a teacher through the world of Japanese typewriters, learning, and encounter.

"The Dionysus Project" is a short story by Yusuke Miyauchi. First published in Shigyo no Techo, vol. 14, it received the Short Story Prize at the 77th Mystery Writers of Japan Award.

Winner of the Short Story Prize at the 77th Mystery Writers of Japan Award.

This study and book guide traces translated-mystery series and collected editions published in Japan from the postwar era to the present, showing how international mysteries were introduced and read there. It closely examines selections, designs, editorial backgrounds, and the works and authors included, surveying the reception history of translated mysteries through the paths left by distinctive series.

A journey through the mystery series sleeping in a scholar's labyrinth reveals a history of postwar Japanese reading.

A reference work on Edogawa Rampo’s life and work, arranged in three parts: biography, chronicle, and record. By reassembling a chronology with selected memoirs, letters, and other writings in chronological order, it presents a layered view of the author’s life and his role in the history of detective fiction.

Edogawa Rampo’s life emerges through a chronology and more than five hundred autobiographical fragments.

Six years after Manchester University student Zoe Nolan disappears, writer Evelyn Mitchell begins assembling a true-crime account through interviews with people connected to the case. When she dies soon after finding evidence of the kidnapper, author Joseph Knox takes over her unfinished manuscript. Testimony, letters, and emails interweave in a suspense noir that deepens suspicion of the victim, the witnesses, and the narrator himself.

A true-crime-style mystery built from testimony, where neither the victim, the witnesses, nor even the narrator can be trusted.

Six years after student Zoe disappeared from her Manchester University residence, Evelyn becomes obsessed with the case and begins interviewing those connected to it for a true-crime book. Just after obtaining evidence that could identify the abductor, she dies. Writer Joseph Knox tries to complete her account from the manuscript she left behind. In this suspense noir, where neither the victim, the people involved, nor even the author can be trusted, testimony repeatedly rearranges the shape of the truth.

A suspense noir in which testimony unsettles the truth and not even the author can be trusted.