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"The game is afoot"
"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then...
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The Scarlet Letters
「一人では解けない愛のパズルを抱いて」『Get Wild』 (TM Network)"Embrace the puzzle of love you can't solve on your own""Get Wild" (TM Network)Note to self: books are heavy and it is expensive to send them back home, even...
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『麺類を喰いつくす！』
"And now for something completely different""Monty Python's Flying Circus"Don't worry: you're probably still on the right blog. But no detective stuff today.Before this was a blog solely focusing on...
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『ゲームの館殺人事件』
渇いた叫びがくじけそうな胸を突き刺す君を誘って世界を見たいな「渇いた叫び」（Field of View)This yell of thirst stabs through my dispirited heartI want to invite you to see the world with meA Yell of Thirst (Field of View)Am I writing about...
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Murder in Three Acts
「好き好き大好き 好き好き大好き好き好き大好き 愛しているって言わなきゃ殺す」『好き好き大好き」(戸川純）"I love you, I love you, I really love you I love you, I love you, I really love youI love you, I love you, I really love youIf you don't say I love...
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『犬のみぞ知る DOG KNOWS』
"Je had van die typische wijkmoorden, met een merkwaardige beslotenheid als in the boeken van John Dickson Carr of bij een treinmoord van Agatha Christie. Dikwijls voelde je bij het begin van het...
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「都合のいい奇跡だって…やればなんとかなるっ！」
「希望を求めなければ・・・絶望の襲われる事もないんだし」 『スーパーダンガンロンパ２ さよなら絶望学園』"If you don't wish for hope, you won't be assaulted by despair either""Super Danganronpa 2 - Farewell Academy of Despair"It's been more than a year...
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「ご馳走さん」
「ラーメンには人間社会の縮図がある。物悲しさから、小さな幸せまで何もかも」 『ゆげ福 博多探偵事件ファイル』"Ramen is like a minature map of human society. There is sadness, a bit of hapiness and every else" "Yugefuku - The Hakata Detective Case Files"I...
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『赤い部屋』
"Ik geloof niet aan een inspiratie, die zomaar komt. Niet veel mensen hebben Edison goed begrepen, toen hij zei, dat uitvinden 99 procent transpiratie en een procent inspiratie was. Hij bedoelde er mee...
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『死者からの伝言をどうぞ』
"Slechts even flitste het door hem heen, dat het geen wijkmoord leek te worden: en dan nog wel in de wijk, waar hij zoveel jaren van zijn jeugd had doorgebracht en na zijn trouwen opnieuw was gaan...
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The Moving Finger
「では、本題に入る前に予備知識として、推理小説における首切り殺人の歴史についてー」「それは省略だ」警視が意義を唱えた。「後でおまえが本を書く時に、適当に挿入しろ。俺はそんなものに興味はない。すぐ本題に入るんだ」 『誰彼』"Well, before we move on to the main topic, let's review the history of decapitation...
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In which the Queens go the theatre
"Ellery is merly indulging in his favorite game of ratiocination. He doesn't know where the papers are any more than you do. he's guessing.... in detective literature," he added with a sad smile, "they...
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Tale of Two Shoes
“There are only two detectives for whom 1 have felt, in my own capacity as hunter-of-men, any deeply underlying sympathy... transcending racial idiosyncrasies and overleaping barriers of space and...
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Elleryana
"No man however modest -and Ellery Queen, I think he will be the first to agree, is far from that - cares to flaunt his failures to the world""The Greek Coffin Mystery" For those wondering why I seem...
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Crucifixion of a Dead Man
“When a crime is committed by a non-habitual criminal, that is the time for the policeman to watch out. None of the rules he has learned will apply, and the information he has amassed through years of...
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The Heel of Achilles
"I said I know everything.""Oh." The Inspector relaxed. "Another one of your jokes. 'Course, you always know everything about everything. You're one of God's Four Hundred, you are. Isn't a subject on...
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The Queen's Tale
"Whoever used this exercised the usal care and wiped the gun clean of prints. Sometimes I think there should be a law against detective stories. Gives potentional criminals too many pointers""The...
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The Topsy-Turvy Murder
"At any rate, this thing needs the application of thought... China, China, China! I’m beginning to wish I had a Charlie Chan on the scene to clarify these esoteric mysteries of Orientalism. I’m...
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Nudaque Veritas
"In the mountains of tuth," quoth Nietszche, "you never climb in vain."No one outside the realm of fairy tales ever scaled a mountain by standing at its foot and wishing himself over its crest. This is...
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運命の交差点
「怪人が飛べて、探偵に飛べんわけあるか！」『名探偵コナン マリオネット 交響曲（シンフォニー）』"If monsters can fly, there's no reason why detectives can't fly!""Detective Conan: Marionette Symphony"Oh, I finally got my gigantic stack of books! And...
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