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Golden WolfAuthor: Hisao Jūran
| Original Title | 金狼 |
|---|---|
| Author | 久生 十蘭 |
| Genre | Popular Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a seedy bar on Tokyo's outskirts, five strangers converge under sweltering heat, lured by cryptic letters promising unexplained inheritances. Among them are a disgraced bureaucrat, a jaded reporter, a taxi mechanic, a timid hostess, and a strikingly handsome drifter—each harboring secrets and skepticism. Their enigmatic host never arrives; instead, they discover his brutally murdered corpse upstairs, drenching the ramshackle building in blood. As police interrogate the mismatched group, tensions flare: the hostess Aoi endures humiliating scrutiny, while others trade theories about the victim’s shadowy past trafficking laborers. Whispers of a mysterious woman—linked to both the inheritance scheme and the killing—haunt the investigation. Bonds form between Aoi and the drifter Kuga, whose gentle demeanor masks his own enigmatic history. With suspects multiplying and alibis unraveling, the strangers realize their fates are entangled in a web far darker than greed. As night falls over Tokyo’s neon-lit underworld, unanswered questions linger: Who orchestrated their meeting? What connects them beyond chance? And whose secrets will bleed out next? |
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