This book is a mystery novel written by Sasazawa Shoho, a Japanese mystery writer. The novel is characterized by subtle room deduction, and was selected by Japanese deduction master Arisugawa Arisu as one of the top 20 classic room deduction in Japan in The Great Illustrated Book of Room Deduction, which has been published in five editions in Japan. The work tells the story of a party held at a mountain house in Karuizawa in the name of selecting a son-in-law for his daughter, Fujiko Nishijo, by a wealthy professor, Toyoshi Nishijo. Unexpectedly, on the day of the announcement of the choice of the husband, Prof. Nishijo and his wife died tragically in a closed underground warehouse (secret room), and Shojiro Tenchi, a reporter who had a secret love affair with Fujiko Nishijo, had to take part in the reasoning battle. So, who is the murderer among the 13 guests attending the party, and how did the murderer successfully realize the murder in the secret room? In order to crack this double secret room, both psychologically and physically, perhaps it all starts with the murderer's deep-seated vengeful grudge and death-defying malice. ......
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