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Bouquet of EvilAuthor: Hisao Jūran
| Original Title | 悪の花束 |
|---|---|
| Author | 久生 十蘭 |
| Genre | Detective & Mystery |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In the shadowed corridors of early 20th-century Paris, retired detective René Gorron reflects on a career unraveling France’s most labyrinthine crimes. Among them lie three twisted tales of “disguised murders”—killers who craft elaborate facades to shift blame. A prominent politician vanishes, his disappearance laced with marital discord and a theatrical confession from a phantom shipping magnate. A society beauty collapses in a subway car, her death entwined with toxic secrets and a stranger in a blue hunting jacket who may not exist. A widow’s brutal murder sparks a transcontinental chase, where aliases and coincidences blur guilt beyond recognition. Each case pulses with calculated deception: forged identities, poisoned perfumes, and criminals who vanish like smoke. Yet Gorron’s memoirs whisper a haunting truth—even the most meticulous schemes bear fatal flaws, cracked open by arrogance or chance. As past and present collide in these tangled webs of motive and misdirection, one question lingers: Can any crime, however artfully staged, outwit the patterns etched into human nature? |
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