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Original Title	カンカン虫殺人事件
Author	大阪 圭吉
Genre	Popular Fiction
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	When a shipyard worker mysteriously vanishes, the quiet life of detective Aoyama Kyōsuke is violently interrupted. Days later, the brutally murdered corpse of Harada Kizaburō surfaces, bearing a gruesome array of injuries that defy simple explanation. With Kizaburō’s colleague, Yamada Gennosuke, also missing, Kyōsuke plunges into a complex investigation, sifting through conflicting evidence, strange conversations, and the grim secrets lurking within the sprawling shipyard. From cryptic freckles of iron dust to peculiar matchbooks and suspicious oil spills, every clue leads him deeper into a chilling past connecting the victims to a departing cargo ship. Can Kyōsuke unravel this intricate web of deceit and violence, expose a ruthless killer, and discover the fate of the second missing man before the trail vanishes forever into the open sea?