The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro, 1925_ The Case of the Murder on D.Hill
- 3 years ago
In early September, "I" was sipping iced coffee at a coffee shop I frequented called Hakubai-ken on the main street of D.Hill. Across the street from the coffee store was a used bookstore, and one of the purposes of my visit was to admire the sensual beauty of the owner's wife.
Then Kogoro Akechi, a young man who had become acquainted with the shop, walks by, and he too notices me and comes into the shop. So the two of us were looking out the window and talking, but I didn't see the beautiful wife that day. I suspected something was wrong, so the two of us went into the used bookstore and found the dead body of the used bookstore owner's wife in the back room of the store.
From what I could see, it looked like she had been strangled with a rope. As a result of the police investigation, the alibi of the owner of the used bookstore is proven, but the investigation is difficult because all the entrances and exits to the room where the body was found were being watched, making it a locked-room murder as in so-called British and American detective novels.
Then Kogoro Akechi, a young man who had become acquainted with the shop, walks by, and he too notices me and comes into the shop. So the two of us were looking out the window and talking, but I didn't see the beautiful wife that day. I suspected something was wrong, so the two of us went into the used bookstore and found the dead body of the used bookstore owner's wife in the back room of the store.
From what I could see, it looked like she had been strangled with a rope. As a result of the police investigation, the alibi of the owner of the used bookstore is proven, but the investigation is difficult because all the entrances and exits to the room where the body was found were being watched, making it a locked-room murder as in so-called British and American detective novels.