そして五人がいなくなる 名探偵夢水清志郎事件ノート

名探偵夢水清志郎事件ノート

by はやみねかおる, 村田四郎 (イラスト)

夢水清志郎は名探偵。表札にも名刺にも、ちゃんとそう書いてある。だけど、ものわすれの名人で、自分がごはんを食べたかどうかさえわすれちゃう。おまけに、ものぐさでマイペース。こんな名（迷）探偵が、つぎつぎに子どもを消してしまう怪人「伯爵」事件に挑戦すれば、たちまち謎は解決……するわけはない。笑いがいっぱいの謎解きミステリー。

Genres: Japanese Literature, Mystery

276 pages, 新書

First published February 15, 1994

About the author

Kaoru Hayamine

Reviews

[Angel 一匹狼 · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very weak story, with little to say in its favor but that it introduces a group of very interesting and charming characters, "そして五人がいなくなる" does little to keep the reader's interest in the story. The best, its attempts at humor.

The best: it introduces the characters; some attempts at humor

The worst: it becomes too boring and repetitive

Alternatives: mystery books for children? there are many. by the same Kaoru Hayamine, for example, "「ミステリーの館」へ、ようこそ" is way better than this one; "The Three Investigators", "Flanagan" (Castilian & Catalan)...

5/10

(In its original Japanese)

[owlette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Revisiting my childhood favorite to see if it still holds up.

The best part of the series is the character, Yumemizu Kiyoshiro. This nonconforming former professor of logic who declares that the only things in life he needs are books and a sofa to read on, is still one of my favorite fictional characters down to his stupid catchphrases. Yumemizu does solve all the cases, but the mysteries in the series don't hold a candle to the Password series by the same children's book publisher, let alone Detective Conan , in their complexity or writing. This volume, the first installment of the series, is particularly mediocre except for the very beginning when the triplets first meet Yumemizu. I would have rated it 2/5 stars if it weren't for the fact that this is one of the many Kodansha Blue Bird publications that my grandmother sent to the United States when my sister and I were little.