Abstract

Inside the luxurious Gran Class carriage of the Tohoku Shinkansen Hayabusa, a man seated at the rear is poisoned to death.
The victim was a management consultant and a key suspect Inspector Totsugawa was tracking for a politician's murder.
Yumi, a railway magazine photographer who snapped photos of the scene, aims for an exclusive scoop... but danger looms!

Author’s Information

Born in Tokyo in 1930. After working as a civil servant and holding various other jobs, he continued his creative writing endeavors. He won the All Yomimono Mystery Fiction New Writer Award in 1963 for Yuganda Asa (Distorted Morning) and made his formal literary debut in 1965 when Tenshi no Shōkon (A Scar of an Angel) was awarded the Edogawa Rampo Prize. In 1981, he received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Shūchakueki Satsujin Jiken (Terminal Station Murder Case). In 2001, he opened the "Kyotaro Nishimura Museum" in Yugawara, displaying his complete works and personal records as an author. A truly beloved, household-name writer, he was honored with the Japan Mystery Literature Grand Prize in 2004, the Shin Hasegawa Award in 2010, and the Eiji Yoshikawa Bunko Prize in 2019. He passed away on March 3, 2022, at the age of 91. His lifetime bibliography exceeds 640 titles.