Status Updates From The Red Locked Room

Picked this up since it was name dropped in detective ritual. Turns out this is a short story collection that contains “the red locked room”, gonna read all the stories anyways I guess.

“The white locked room” was just okay, but was very short, so that’s fine.

“Who’s corpse” was great. Exactly the kind of thing I look for when picking up a honkaku mystery.

I love that Tetsuya’s detectives are bent on cracking the murderers’ foolproof alibis. I’ve currently finished four of the short stories, and they were all soooo good! I especially liked “Whose Body?” I certainly wish that his other works especially his full length novels are already translated! Definitely an unexpected favorite for me.

The Five Clocks probably would have made more impact if it had been placed somewhere else in the book...

The Clown in the Tunnel was clever, if slightly tedious

Okay “Death in Early Spring” was super clever. :)