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Hell StreetAuthor: Unno Juza
| Original Title | 地獄街道 |
|---|---|
| Author | 海野 十三 |
| Genre | Modern Short Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In the shadowy heart of Tokyo, a detective novelist trails his enigmatic friend Tsujinaga—a brilliant private investigator—into a labyrinth of secrets. What begins as a routine inquiry into crates linked to gruesome "Boxed Corpse" murders spirals into a nightmare. Three young men, unmarked by violence yet crushed inside beer shipments, haunt a freight yard where machinery hums with chilling indifference. Tsujinaga’s razor-sharp deductions trace the victims’ last steps: a cursed liquor that twists desire into doom, a seductive riverbank trap, and an itching compulsion leading sleepwalkers toward Jewish Alley—a whispered gateway to a clandestine society. As the duo uncovers gears of a hidden metropolis—coal hoists, automated factories, and coded poisons—they realize Tokyo itself funnels the doomed along a "Hell Street." But when Tsujinaga vanishes mid-revelation, consumed by the same dark forces he sought to unravel, his partner faces a harrowing choice: pursue justice or succumb to the city’s hungry machinery. Every clue tightens the trap, leaving readers breathless at the edge of an abyss where intellect battles unspeakable design. |
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