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Murder in the GraveyardAuthor: Kosakai Fuboku
| Original Title | 墓地の殺人 |
|---|---|
| Author | 小酒井 不木 |
| Genre | Detective & Mystery |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a labyrinthine Tokyo cemetery, a nameless corpse is discovered—stripped of clothing and identity, its skull shattered. Teenage scientific detective Tsubohara Shunkun faces his most grueling challenge yet: solving a murder with no starting point. The victim’s nakedness suggests a killer desperate to erase all traces of their connection, leaving Shunkun to scour microscopic debris and earwax for clues. A trail leads to a Western restaurant where the dead man dined hours before his murder, accompanied by a sharp-faced stranger. The discovery of a business card belonging to a dentist who vanished years earlier in the Great Kanto Earthquake deepens the enigma, pulling Shunkun into a web of wartime secrets and doppelgangers. As he races to Nagoya to interrogate grieving families and dissect faded photographs, shadowy figures from the past resurface—a dismissed dental assistant with a criminal’s visage, vanished journalists, and temple priests harboring lethal grudges. With three nearly identical cemeteries as his chessboard and probability as his guide, Shunkun navigates a case where every clue unravels new deceptions, culminating in a breathless chase through Tokyo’s backstreets. The truth hinges on a single question: Can a man truly disappear twice? |
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