Utsukushiki Toso Ka (Kadokawa Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Keiko Izawa, who started working as a magazine journalist to become independent, was forced to leave the company due to sexual harassment by her boss and changes in management policy. While searching for her future, she hears that Hisako Kajimura, a female writer and old acquaintance, has died suddenly at a hot spring inn in Yugawara. The local police, however, assert that there is no evidence that the woman died suddenly. Behind the commotion, the ugly desires of the men playing with Keiko were involved. Seicho Matsumoto's powerful romance feature film is based on the literary world, which is riddled with ugly rumors.

自立のために雑誌記者として働き始めた井沢恵子は、上司からのセクハラや経営方針の改悪を苦に退社を余儀なくされた。今後の身の振り方を模索する最中、旧知の女性作家・梶村久子が湯河原の温泉旅館で急死したとの情報を耳にする。ところが、地元警察は女性が急死した事実はないと断言。騒動の裏には、恵子を翻弄する男たちの醜い欲望が関わっていた。醜聞にまみれた文壇を題材にした、松本清張による迫真のロマンス長編。