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s harassment by a woman claiming to be sekiguchi s mother has an ending that would be completely unacceptable in any series other than this one the romantic drama however was very compelling the interpersonal issues and slow ramping up of sekiguchi s creepy behaviour were both portrayed with some nuance while i figure that it s only partially authorial intent if at all i remain continuously fascinated by what the mario series has to say about heterosexual relationships the ideal marriage is a sham and one that makes people desperately unhappy as they suppress their individual idiosyncrasies in order to wedge themselves into a box determined by society like it or not people are still to paraphrase translate mario saddled by the norms of the society they grew up in 1 this can be seen in the relationship trade up that motivates the murder in the flashback case mutsuki s love triangle between the eccentric tomonaga and the attentive which is i think not quite the same thing as being kind 2 sekiguchi and the way that plotline resolves maybe tomonaga and mutsuki s unconventional relationship then provides a positive alternative to all this although as mutsuki reflects at the end of the book hopefully it s not just about her willingness to accept her partner s harmless eccentricities and he does find her attractive too abiko seems to have sensed that the third book was more about romantic drama than locked rooms since in the second author s note for this edition he says he s concluding the series as continuing on with it would have caused the story to become something other than a mystery 3 it seems that the manga gave him a second wind as he later wrote a fourth book that marries both mystery short stories and marriage 1 社会から押しつけられた常識をまだ引きずってる 2 気配り 優しさ とはちょっと違うと思う 3 ミステリではないものになりそう six degrees of separation invisible helix 2021 may 12 2025 february 24 2025 joey leave a comment you really are pinning your hopes on the flimsiest of leads flimsier than the filaments of a spider s web keigo higashino s galileo series has had an interesting trajectory starting off as the kind of highly technical mystery short stories that make publishers cry the series gradually transformed into the more melodramatic style of police procedural while still coyly maintaining that fair play aspect the devotion of suspect x had a great alibi trick but in some ways i feel like its smash hit status had less to do with that than the cat and mouse tension and the bitter shocking ending the latest translation in the galileo series invisible helix tl giles murray is perhaps the furthest towards procedural melodrama yet a tale of chance interpersonal connections and surprising links when the police find ryota uetsuji s body in tokyo bay having been shot in the back they only intend to ask the girlfriend who reported him missing sonoka shimauchi a few routine questions until she goes on the run that is now the police find themselves in a race to determine where sonoka is and who the mysterious woman is fleeing with her and whether either of them have anything to do with ryota s murder but the suspects all have tangential deeply buried connections to each other which may be the key to solving the case you could say it s like a chain that you can t see and shockingly one of the links is manabu galileo yukawa for once putting him at odds with his homicide detective friends the motive for murder is a secret connection between characters of which no evidence exists is an interesting hook as is yukawa is working on the side of the suspect but the premise also means that by necessity kusanagi and utsumi the series regular cops don t have a whole lot of leads to investigate this made the first 200 pages feel a bit like pulling teeth do the police think sonoka did it no she has an alibi do you the reader think sonoka did it you might on the strength of other higashino books like suspect x or salvation of a saint where a woman with an unimpeachable alibi kills her extremely unsympathetic partner then again both of those were reverse whodunits where we knew pretty much off the bat that the lead suspect was the murderer the last third of the book has twists left and right although again since there really are no leads most of them are delivered in the form of flashbacks from the major suspects yukawa has a bit of a leg up due to his own personal connection which is probably the strongest point of the book the sharp tongued analytical physics professor is usually there to cut through gordian knots but invisible helix shines a spotlight on yukawa the person i ve never imagined him in any sort of family setting utsumi opines at one point yet nonetheless there he is living at his parents place to help care for his mother yukawa s painful family history is bound up in the mystery and more than usual he s not willing to share when i heard it had been knocked down i realized that the person i was then was a completely different person than the little boy who had tried so hard to be a good and obedient son in that house that that little boy had died long ago and left his invisible corpse in that old house somewhere invisible helix isn t the strongest entry in the galileo books although i d still probably rank it above a midsummer s equation the main draw for series aficionados is probably the insight into our protagonists personal lives locked room library 5 through the walls 1937 may 5 2025 march 1 2025 joey leave a comment she pretended against all odds not even to have seen him but he hadn t gone through the wall they hadn t found even the slightest crack as i mentioned in the masterpost for this blogging endeavour french mystery authors are a bit of a lacuna in my mystery knowledge noël vindry is one such author a mystery novelist who wrote a string of meticulously fair play puzzle novels in the 30s and 40s before quitting the genre and is apparently almost as forgotten in french as he is in english thankfully i don t have to lean on my shoddy french skills as john pugmire translated several of his best works into english through locked room international including through the walls the locked room a family is menaced by a mysterious intruder who leaves the house s upstairs without having entered can kill in locked bedrooms and in broad daylight while facing the victim and vanish in plain sight the story through the walls leans towards the far extreme of the puzzle plot which is to say there s vastly more puzzle than plot petty bureaucrat sertat comes to police commissaire maubritaine looking for help with a nighttime intruder who he suggests might be from a smuggling gang looking to psychologically terrorize him into disclosing rival gang secrets he s not at liberty to reveal maubritaine helps him stake out the upper floor of the house and even lays eyes on the intruder only for him to elude them during a scooby doo style chase sequence through the connecting bedrooms and bathrooms following this each member of the family is attacked either in a room no one could enter or that no one could enter or leave without being seen what makes all of this even more baffling is that while maubritaine is able to make some sensible logical deductions about who would have the means or motive to do any one of the murders none of the involved parties has the motive to do all of them that or they re already dead or otherwise out of commission by the time more incidents take place i i m the murderer it could only be me maubritaine finally declares unable to find a solution at the end of his wits he comes to m allou vindry s magistrate detective to attempt to make sense of the sequence of events the action is entirely recounted events that maubritaine is conveying after the fact to m allou which had the effect of making it feel rather removed i don t think i ever got over the feeling that this is a flashback when that flashback comprises 90 or more of the book allou s methodology is to find a theory which fits all the facts then investigating anew until the theory is proved or disproved but despite being a magistrate he doesn t end up investigating at all and finds the solution speedily in the final chapter through a series of logical deductions the lri translation of this book is accompanied by some essays interviews by vindry and those were quite interesting vindry shares my long held theory that detective fiction doesn t tend towards murder because its focus is police or crime or the human heart or any of that rather the murder provides the stakes and drama to carry a highly technical rational puzzle action dazzles the reader vindry says in fact the real focus of the detective novel or puzzle novel is the discovery of the criminal or even the act of discovery itself its essence is a mysterious fact that has to be explained naturally the criminal hides his activities and the detective tries to discover them their conflicts provide convenient situations the givens of the problem that s it i found it equally interesting that the reason vindry eventually stopped writing mysteries that since switching genres i no longer play with my characters i collaborate with them and i live with them the contrast of playing with characters rather than writing them as living people is definitely on display here the cast members are the bare minimum necessary for conveying stakes and making the solution operable but they are primarily parts in a mechanism one of the central players the daughter never has any lines or physically appears in the story embedded or otherwise solution satisfaction rating rating 2 out of 5 through the walls strongly reminded me of the mystery of the yellow room and not just due to a shared literary heritage the solution to the central mystery is certainly natural but not all that interesting it s a fair solution simple and psychologically sound but in the broad strokes it s also one that could apply to a great many mysteries and there s a reason it isn t often done detective stories are similar to magic shows except that they have the unenviable task of making the real solution seem equally astonishing here it has that slightly deflating oh really quality of an explained trick it s all very tight but a bit of a damp squib i was going to propose that i d like to see an alternate solution to the same setup but realized that in fact there already is one at least for the chase sequence the dashing joker by taku ashibe tl yuko shimada in eqmm september october 2020 dying messages are child s play in strange pictures 2025 april 28 2025 february 24 2025 joey leave a comment i ve finally figured out the secret of those three drawings i can t imagine the kind of pain you must have been suffering nor can i understand the depths of whatever sin you committed i cannot forgive you but even so i will always love you strange pictures by horror youtuber uketsu tl jim rion is a multimedia psychological horror mystery novel told partially in the form of pencil drawings where the reader as detective has to figure out the hidden meanings in each image overall i felt like i would have liked to see more drawings not just because the multimedia gimmick was the best part but because then i would ve spent less time having to read it the book s prologue is an academic lecture about children s psychological drawings in which the lecturer discusses how a person s subconscious character can be inferred from their art armed with this knowledge we are then tossed into three short stories which all revolve around the mysterious significance of different drawings two students investigate an abandoned blog about the writer s marital life that abruptly ends with several years of content deleted and a cryptic final message that suggests that the blogger s wife may have predicted her own death her drawings before she died point to a sinister truth a young boy in a single parent household goes missing shortly after a school assignment to draw a portrait of his mother is the unsettling cloud over the apartment in his picture connected to the man who has been following him home from school a widely disliked art teacher is brutally murdered while hiking on his body the police find a sketch of the mountain view which is oddly simplistic despite being drawn with guidelines could this sketch somehow point to his killer readers who prefer their clues more tangible may groan at the premise but believe it or not the book is as much fair play mystery as horror the psychoanalysis is a bit of a red herring rather than an obsessive hunt for ambiguous shades of subconscious meaning each story drawing has something in the way of a puzzle dying message or other specific material clue contained within it this gimmick was alright for what it was and the drawings were realistic and unnerving my trouble with the mysteries boiled down to two other issues first the pacing is extremely rushed i don t want to lean too hard on the fact that the author is a video creator but the content of strange pictures does feel quite bite sized and social media appropriate the book s length is padded with powerpoint diagrams of simple concepts key deductions and solutions are written in boldface perhaps to facilitate reading it at 1 25x speed this grated on me but was not as big an issue as the second point the solutions to the mysteries do not justify their respective tricks the last story art teacher murder frustrated me the most with this because the initial explanation of the dying message is actually not half bad the murder premise could have formed the basis for an acceptable hour of television except that the novel then tries to out clever itself by flipping the explanation on its head with an additional twist that it does not have the page count to earn for a novel that opens with a psychoanalysis lecture strange pictures really falls flat as a portrayal of realistic human behaviour mystery novels having unrealistic character writing is a critique stemming back to at least raymond chandler but the characterization hoops being jumped through here are really quite extreme the characters are constantly coming up with overcomplicated schemes while being absurdly passive towards their own imminent deaths you really expect me to believe that a pregnant woman would rot13 erfvtarqyl npprcg ure zbgure va ynj cbvfbavat ure orpnhfr vg jnf jvgu fnyg cvyyf naq vs fur qvq ercbeg vg vg pbhyq or cnffrq bss nf na nppvqrag jul ner lbh fgvyy gnxvat cvyyf sebz fbzrbar jub jnagf gb xvyy lbh sbe gung znggre n zvqjvsr fubhyq xabj gung cer rpynzcfvn pna xvyy gur onol gbb as for the overarching plot of course there s an overarching plot again the solution was disappointing implausible and felt over explained to compensate for the lack of build up with these characters one case didn t even have a real motive v xabj fur whfg jnagrq gb or n zbgure vf jryy gebqqra zvfbtlavfgvp zbgvir tebhaq ohg abg jura gur punenpgre nyernql unf n fba the big 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