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Mad LocomotiveAuthor: Osaka Keikichi
| Original Title | 気狂い機関車 |
|---|---|
| Author | 大阪 圭吉 |
| Genre | Popular Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | On a frigid, storm-lashed night, two investigators are summoned to a remote railway station where a grisly murder defies logic. A burly railway worker lies dead beside icy tracks, his skull crushed by an unseen assailant. No footprints mar the snow—only an eerie trail of blood droplets stretches westward into darkness. As blizzard winds howl, sharp-witted detective Kyōsuke uncovers baffling clues: mineral traces in the wound, a missing pickaxe, and a second corpse hurled from a speeding locomotive. The killer’s methods grow more enigmatic—dual weapons, a phantom presence aboard the train, and a water-tank trap rigged with chilling precision. Amid signal lights flickering like ghostly eyes, Kyōsuke unravels a web of revenge spun by a shadowy figure exploiting the station’s labyrinthine infrastructure. Tension escalates as a rogue locomotive hurtles toward catastrophe, its fate entwined with a one-armed man’s vendetta. Secrets cling like frost to every rusted rail in this atmospheric puzzle where machinery becomes both weapon and witness. |
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