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番外編：The 8 Mansion Murders Released
I really should stop doing announcements of upcoming announcements, because it always leaves me with next to nothing to say with the actual announcement...So yeah, I have little to add to my previous...
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The Comic Book Mystery
"In a few minutes, this famous cartoonist will be dead. Who killed him? Was it the ambitious lettering man? The layout expert? The background artist? The figure specialist? His disillusioned secretary?...
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Go Your Own Way
運命のルーレット廻してアレコレ深く考えるのはMystery「 運命のルーレット廻して」（Zard）Turn the roulette of destinyIt's a mystery why I think so deeply about everything"Turn the Roulette of Destiny" (Zard) In my review of the very amusing...
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The Wrong Shape
As I peruse the mystery blogs and the comments on the posts, I have noticed a trend among both bloggers and commenters that seems to suggest that most people seem to prefer the full-length novel over...
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Black Coffee Rag
「オレは今、オレ自身の２つの問題で精いっぱいさ。コーヒーはなぜ、黒いのか？ そして‥‥なぜ、ニガいのか‥‥？」『逆転裁判3』"Right now, I have my hands full with my own two questions. Why is coffee black? And why... is it so bitter...?""Phoenix Wright: Ace...
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Designs in Crime
I will well and faithfully serve Her Majesty and Her Heirs and Successors according to law as a police officer, I will obey, uphold and maintain the laws of the Colony of Hong Kong, I will execute the...
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Double, Double
"Wait a minute, let me get this straight: Twice came in and shot the teller and Jim Fell."- "No, he only shot the teller, Jim Johnson. Fell is ill.""Okay, then after he shot the teller, you shot...
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Prism of Eyes
So in my review of Ashibe Taku's Double Mystery, I noted how it used the format of a physical book to bring an interesting experience: you could start from either side of the book, and it had a sealed...
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Black Orchids
「劇場でいちいち蘭ぁん！て言うのやめてくれる？」林原めぐみ -『名探偵コナンラジオ 第6回』"Could you stop yelling 'Raaaaan!' all the time in the movies?"Hayashibara Megumi (voice actress of Haibara Ai) in "Detective Conan Radio - Episode 6"I'm...
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The Eleventh Striker
「おい！一人多いぞ！」『11人いる！』"Hey! We have one person too many!""They Were Eleven!"A few weeks back, I reviewed Honkaku Mystery Comics Seminar, a seminal work on the history of the mystery manga genre in Japan,...
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The Message in Red
"I perceive from the strawberry-mark on your shirt-front that you had strawberries for dessert. Holmes, you astonish me. Tut, tut, you know my methods. Where is the tobacco? The tobacco is in the...
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Brand New Story
「もう謎は解きたくないんだあああ～！！」 『金田一37歳の事件簿』"I don't wanna solve mysteries anymore!!""The Case Files of the 37-year old Kindaichi"The adventures of Kindaichi Hajime, grandson of the famous detective Kindaichi...
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Sailing In The Sunset
どこか未だに知らない場所へ迷い込みたくない？ 君といたらもっといいのにな痛みさえも老いてゆくよう「涙のイエスタデー」（Garnet Crow） Don't you feel like getting lost in some unknown place?It'd be more fun if I'd be with youEven my pain would eventually go...
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Night on Haunted Mountain
The bear went over the mountain, To see what he could see.And all that he could see, And all that he could see, Was the other side of the mountain I love the covers of this series by the way, the...
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Eye on Crime
Objects are often important to a mystery story. If a murder is committed, the culprit is likely to utilize an object, that is, a murder weapon, to accomplish their goal. A button left at the crime...
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The Quest of the Missing Map
Convenient for reading this post: a post on glasses in mystery fiction. Don't you just get excited when you open a mystery novel and you discover there are floorplans or other diagrams inside? There's...
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Monsters Unleashed
"How many times do I have to tell you? There is no such thing as ghouls, ghosts, goblins or monsters! Listen up, there is absolutely absolutely no such thing as.... MONSTER?!!!!" "Scooby-Doo"Today, a...
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Knight Time Terror
まだ痛む右腕愛しいあなたを思い出せと巡るから剣を求め彷徨う「Marionette Fantasia」（Garnet Crow)I meander in hopes of remembering you,my beloved with your wounded right arm,Wandering around in search for your sword"Marionette...
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Moving Target
「警察の正義とは、悪を地獄に落とす事であり、善を地獄より救い出す事である。真実の破片を集め、組み立てるのは天国・地獄行の切符を同時に発行するようなものだ」「矢島喜八郎」 "The justice of the police is sending the evil to hell, and saving the good from hell. Finding the fragments of...
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In The Mind To Suffer
"Paris in the fall, the last months of the year, at the end of the millenium. The city holds many memories for me, of music, of cafes, of love, and of death.""Broken Sword: The Shadow of the...
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