Crystal Pyramid / 水晶のピラミッド

Crystal Pyramid is a grand, larger-than-life mystery that is perhaps a bit too grand and larger-than-life. Souji Shimada’s recurring detective Kiyoshi Mitarai investigates a murder that occurred at a full-scale recreation of the Great Pyramid of Giza on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, and this mystery works really well, but there’s a lot of extraneous flak that comes with it.

Murder in the Crooked House / 斜め屋敷の犯罪

At the northern tip of Japan lies an architectural marvel known as the Crooked House, a large mansion built at a slight angle. It is the home of wealthy businessman Hamamoto Kozaburou, his daughter and some servants. One Christmas he invites some business associates to spend the holidays at the Crooked House. Unfortunately, the festivities are brought to a halt when corpses start turning up inside locked rooms.