Gannen Haru no Matsuri (HAYAKAWA POCKET MYSTERY BOOKS 1935)

[Machine Translation] China in the Former Han Dynasty. The Guan family, a prominent family that once held national rituals, was preparing for the spring festival. Then, the sister of the head of the family is killed by someone. And even though there were eyes on the road leading to the scene of the crime, the murderer has disappeared. Aoi Oryo, the daughter of a wealthy family who was staying at the Guan family to deepen her knowledge of the ancient rites, uses her talent to solve the case. What is the connection between this series of incidents and the slaughter of the previous head of the family four years earlier? The girl discovers the full extent of the tragedy at the end of a battle of deductions that draws on all her knowledge, from Chinese classics to religious studies.

前漢時代の中国。かつて国の祭祀を担った名家、観一族は、春の祭儀を準備していた。その折、当主の妹が何者かに殺されてしまう。しかも現場に通じる道には人の目があったというのに、その犯人はどこかに消えてしまったのだ。古礼の見聞を深めるため観家に滞在していた豪族の娘、於陵葵は、その才気で解決に挑む。連続する事件と、四年前の前当主一家惨殺との関係は?漢籍から宗教学まで、あらゆる知識を駆使した推理合戦の果てに少女は悲劇の全貌を見出す―気鋭の中国人作家が読者に挑戦する華文本格ミステリ。