This mystery essay traces the motif of the mansion from British Gothic romance through American classic mystery and into Japanese detective fiction and shin honkaku. It considers the lineage of mansion mysteries as a game of messages transformed through transmission.

It follows the changing transmission of the mansion motif from Gothic romance to Japanese shin honkaku mystery.

Tantei Shosetsu Note is a critical essay on detective fiction by Hiroshi Tanaka. It received an honorable mention at the second Sogen Mystery Criticism Award.

A critical essay on detective fiction that received an honorable mention at the second Sogen Mystery Criticism Award.