A critical essay that reads Nakai Hideo's The Offering to Nothingness through the faces of Tokyo and the space of mystery fiction.

都市の相貌――中井英夫『虚無への供物』と東京 uses 評論 as an entry point into human emotion.

A critical essay reconsidering Edogawa Rampo's detective Akechi Kogoro and the changing shape of Japanese mystery fiction.

明智小五郎の黄昏――誰が明智小五郎を殺したか uses 評論 as an entry point into human emotion.