(Note: Sachertorte is a chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate glaze and filled with apricot jam.) The London Scones Mystery | Contents Table of Contents 1 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 […]
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Chapter 2 | Contents | Epilogue Table of Contents 1 July 6, 1992 (Heisei 4) – Monday That was all I remembered about Maja from Yugoslavia. While reclining in the soft sofa, I let out a sigh. The sun was already setting, and the shop interior with its mild air-conditioning was starting to feel chilly.
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A Break, and a Short Conversation | Contents | Chapter 3 Table of Contents 1 June 27, 1991 (Heisei 3) – Thursday My wallet became quite a lot lighter in the last two weeks. That was because the books on Yugoslavia I ordered kept getting delivered one after another. Given that I usually only bought
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Prologue | Contents | A Break, and a Short Conversation Table of Contents 1 April 23, 1991 (Heisei 3) – Tuesday There’s a saying that goes, “One can only appreciate manners when their basic needs are met.” There’s also another saying: “Poverty dulls the wit.” In other words, if you exclude some saints, civility is
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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, trying 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, have
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The San Francisco Cookie Mystery | Contents | The London Scones Mystery I’m not sure if it’s good or bad, but Osanai-san and I have encountered strange mysteries quite 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 notice
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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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Prev Story | Contents Table of Contents 1 There had been no indications of winter until the end of December, but the weather instantly became freezing cold when the year changed, as if it had been waiting for that very moment. I didn’t know how or where she had spent her winter vacation, but the
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Prev Story | Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 It was after school on a day when the end of the year was in sight, and I was heading to the Newspaper Club with the answer sheets for a survey in hand. The survey was a poll on whether we supported some changes
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Prev Story | Contents | Next Story Table of Contents 1 Osanai-san and I had an arrangement whereby we would protect each other from troubling situations, as well as monitor each other so that we do not break the oaths we’d made in our hearts. However, that pact was only effective in school on regular
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