[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: "It is said that Katakura women are destined to be killed for generations to come. In March 1954, a series of street murders, the "Showa no Tsujiziri Incident," occurred around the Komazawa Baseball Stadium. Haruko Katakura, the seventh victim, made a comment that foreshadowed her own death. Atsuko Chuzenji, a reporter for "Rare Tan Gekijo," receives advice from Haruko's friend Miyuki Kure, who becomes suspicious of what appears to...
I liked this book a lot (and the whole series, for that matter). On balance I prefer his historically-set 巷説百物語 series, but it's a pretty close-run thing, and this book is definitely a shorter and easier read than those. It's crime fiction set in the 1950s, with a folklore theme.
My favourite bit was the diversion into the history of 凌雲閣, the tower that stood in Asakusa until it was destroyed in the 1923 earthquake. (The author's style tends to this sort of tangentially-relevant diversion; eith