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Petit Bourgeois Volume 5: The Paris Macaron Mystery (Full Text)

Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 It was the middle of September, a little past the start of the second semester, a time when you would still feel sweaty in the afternoon, but the morning wind was somewhat cold, and you would sometimes see a mackerel sky indicative of Autumn. On such a […]

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Petit Bourgeois Volume 5: The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 6)

Full Text The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 5) | Contents | The New York Cheesecake Mystery (Part 1) The girl who joined our table introduced herself as Kogi Cosmos. Her given name was apparently written with the same characters as that of the garden Cosmos, and she was in the third year of middle school.

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Petit Bourgeois Volume 5: The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 5)

Full Text The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 4) | Contents | The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 6) “H-Hang on.” I tried to argue, even though I knew it was futile. “Isn’t Kogi Haruomi in Tokyo?” “Kobato-kun, Kogi Haruomi’s workplace is certainly in Tokyo, but the Shinkansen exists. He can come to Nagoya whenever he needs

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Petit Bourgeois Volume 5: The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 4)

Full Text The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 3) | Contents | The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 5) There was no end to the customers in Patisserie Kogi Annex Ruriko. Gentle laughter, quiet sounds of crockery coming into contact with one another, as well as the high-pitched clinks of a fork striking a plate reached my

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Petit Bourgeois Volume 5: The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 3)

Full Text The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 2) | Contents | The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 4) There is a song about hitting a pocket to make the biscuits within increase in number. I had no recollection of hitting anything, but there was now one more macaron on Osanai-san’s plate. However, she was not visibly

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Petit Bourgeois Volume 5: The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 2)

Full Text The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 1) | Contents | The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 3) Patisserie Kogi Annex Ruriko was constructed at a location about ten minutes’ walk south of Nagoya station. It was not as bustling as the area in front of the station, but it had a cluster of commercial buildings,

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Petit Bourgeois Volume 5: The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 1)

Full Text Contents | The Paris Macaron Mystery (Part 2) It was the middle of September, a little past the start of the second semester, a time when you would still feel sweaty in the afternoon, but the morning wind was somewhat cold, and you would sometimes see a mackerel sky indicative of Autumn. On

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Case of the Autumn-Exclusive Kuri Kinton Afterword by Masaki Tsuji

[Warning: This afterword contains spoilers!] [Note about Masaki Tsuji: An anime screenplay writer for Astro Boy, Dr Slump, Urusei Yatsura among many others, as well as mystery novel writer, who won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1981 for Murder in Alice’s Country] Chapter 6 | Contents The first experience I had with Yonezawa-san’s

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Case of the Autumn-Exclusive Kuri Kinton Chapter 6: Another Autumn

Chapter 5 Part 4 | Contents | Afterword The 8th of August, Friday. The culprit of the serial arson case was arrested, and that news was reported on the television. Since Hiya Yuuto was underage, the culprit’s name was displayed as “High School Student (17)”. Apparently, the brave youth who captured the arsonist had disappeared

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