[DeepL Translation - needs review] Blurb for Demon on a solitary island:.
I (Kinnosuke Minoura) fell madly in love with a co-worker, Hajime Kizaki. She was an abandoned child, and although she had a genealogy book of her ancestors, she did not know who or where they were. One night, in her home, which was completely locked up, Hatsuyoshi was murdered by someone who stabbed her in the heart. At that time, the murderer took her handbag and a can of chocolates. Deprived of my lover, I ask my de...
An 明智小五郎 novel. This is an older book (1931) and so the kanji usage and grammar is different. Unfortunately my copy was 'updated'* so I can't say for sure how much the kanji is different, but I read it with an audiobook which followed the original text and the grammar is certainly older. Having read other, unupdated 江戸川乱歩 books I imagine the kanji usage is the typical wide swath to be expected in the early Showa era. Check out 人間椅子 or 幽霊 as an example.
I don't recommend reading this with the au