Sublime

of murders was none other than Dr Kuno. And why had he

the hermitage. Am I right?”

But in this world, it is never so clear-cut what is happiness and what misfortune.

Eiko had never visited the Minaguchi-ya, but he had read an ancient book, by a gaijin from the old American States named Oliver Statler. The book had detailed the Minaguchi-ya: every room of the place, over all the generations of its operation.

When criminals manage to conceal their motive, they have already achieved more than half of their goal.