(Note: Sachertorte is a chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate glaze and filled with apricot jam.) Full Text Contents | Part 2 It was during a June which saw little rain and was swelteringly hot, making it seem like we’d skipped the plum rains and gone straight to midsummer, when a strange rumor was spread […]
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The Rome Gelato Mystery | Contents | The Vienna Sachertorte Mystery For some reason, let’s assume that I was caught by an English assassin. He is cold and ruthless, and tries to kill me because he thinks I’m a nuisance, even though I wasn’t his original target. While cleaning his gun, he asks me. “Japanese
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The San Francisco Cookie Mystery | Contents | The London Scones Mystery Putting aside the issue of whether it was good or bad, Osanai-san and I encountered strange mysteries fairly often. Most of these mysteries were presented to us as “problems to be solved,” but there were also times when we were the first to
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Contents | The Rome Gelato Mystery Table of Contents 1 It all began with a newspaper. It was followed by another newspaper, and another, and another, then for some reason led to a cookie. Basically, what happened was this. One winter day, after returning from school, I opened the newspaper for some reason. I skimmed
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Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 6) | Contents The sun was already starting to set on the path back home. The winter solstice had passed, so the days should be getting longer, but it didn’t feel like it at all. The road we were taking was a narrow path lined with old
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Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 5) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 7) The “appraisal meeting” was arranged to be held on Monday after school. After classes ended, the school building began to be enveloped in the noise of students leaving and doing club activities. The sounds of music
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Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 4) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 6) Before going to sleep, I briefly summarized my conversation with Kengo and sent a message to Osanai-san from my mobile phone. When I woke up the next morning, I received a concise reply from Osanai-san. “Art
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Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 3) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 5) It was a bit of a shame that we had to cut our meeting at the family restaurant short. We agreed that it was probably not a good idea to be out past ten o’clock, even
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Full Text The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 2) | Contents | The San Francisco Cookie Mystery (Part 4) Winter days are short, so it was already dark when I reached home. I contacted Osanai-san at that time. The story wasn’t that complicated, but it was hard to share subtle nuances over the phone. Thus
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