匣の中の失楽

by Kenji Takemoto, 竹本 健治

　　被称为“黑魔术师”的曳间被神秘杀害，他是一群推理小说狂热者中的一员。这起离奇的命案，竟然和曳间的朋友奈尔兹创作的推理小说中的情节一模一样！
　　密室，谋杀，谋杀，密室……
　　这是死亡的预言，还是神明的启示？

476 pages, Paperback Shinsho

First published December 1, 1983

Reviews

[F Gato]

Another “sacrifice to nothingness” (rolling my eyes)
Bots and whatever theory and layers of narrations to confuse reader (and probably the writer himself?)

What do we learn from it? I dare anyone to rehearse any of these “closet murder” in real life.

[Pei · Rating 2 out of 5]

Recommended by Claude…yeah I shouldn’t trust his/her judgement.
Sacrifices plot and character development for building the narrative structure as tricky as possible, for whatever reasons. Squeezes in a lot of math and physics stuff that make ZERO impact on the story, just the author showing off I guess.
And, although Japanese mysteries are always full of whimsical characters, but those in this book are not just whimsical but awfully annoying in trying to outsmart each other and their interactions are just so odd.

[Jimyip · Rating 2 out of 5]

The motive is peculiar. Some clue seems to be unused. Trying to hard to impress the audience with obscure detail, but fail to reach the depth of his teacher's work Kyoumu e no Kumotsu.

[Life · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stuck with me much more vividly on a re-read, the structure of this book is still potentially one of my favourites and I love what's done with it here.

Sep 2025: 5/5
Mar 2024: 4/5