This critical essay reconsiders detective fiction through the intersection of Western classics and Japanese literature. It places mystery fiction within a wider literary history and questions the assumptions behind the genre.

ウィルキー・コリンズから大西巨人へ is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 石橋正孝.

This essay analyzes mystery fiction through the arrangement of crime, clues, and solution. Its focus is the structure that makes the reader's pursuit of the puzzle part of the form itself.

推理小説の形式的構造論 is an award-winning work that distills the voice of 柳川貴之.