A standard crime and mystery short stories collection published in 1981 by a Beijing publisher (this book is out of print by now, I guess)! All the stories are penned by well-known Japanese crime and mysterious novelists and the stories themselves are obviously aged but are they still up for the test of time?
Basically, these are a bunch of crime and mystery stories from the 1970s, they are decent and a few of the tricks are pretty clever.
The first short story is about a murder that is related to the power struggle within a company, a man is framed with a cigarette butt belonging to him, and he has no eyewitness to prove his innocence, what can he do to save himself?
The second story is quite good, nothing too surprising, but the writing and the plot are decent.
Another tale has WWII, treasure-hunting and a complicated revenge plot involved, and I quite enjoy how the revenge is played out!
There is another story about commercial crime and computer science, the science is really outdated, but I still like this story!
The final story is called 'The Hotel of Misfortune', it's quite clever too! Of course, the main plot is, you guessed it, how to murder your wife in order to be with your younger lover, hahaha! (in the end, but how did it happen isn't the way you might imagine!)