Akechi Kyo Shitai Kembun Find the Onmyouji / Too Many Onmyouji

[Machine Translation] The man was frozen to death in a quart full of snow. This unusual situation was probably caused by witchcraft - and a senior magician at that. The people involved in the case include a military officer who is skilled at scheming, a yin-yang master who acts as a poisoner, and a Konyu general with "talents" - all of whom have one or two quirks. When magic is used to kill a person, the evidence of the murder appears on the face of the magician, but there is no sign of it on the people involved. So who, why, and how did the murders take place? The impossible crime that occurred at the Chrysanthemum Palace is investigated by the Gon Gyobu Sir Akechi Koichiro Mitsuhide and the Yin-Yang Master Abe Ten'ei. The author, who won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and the Authentic Mystery Award with "Two Hundred Years of Short Mysteries," presents a masterpiece of authentic mystery set in "Hinomoto," where magic exists.

その男は、四阿いっぱいの雪に埋もれて凍死していた。この異常な状況は、おそらく魔術によるものだ―それも上級魔術師の。事件関係者は、調略に長けた軍人、毒見役の陰陽師、そして“タレント”を持つ近衛将曹ら、一癖も二癖もある者ばかり。魔術を行使して人を殺めると、その証が術者の相貌に顕われるが、関係者にその気配はない。では、誰が、なぜ、そしてどうやって殺人を為し遂げたのか?菊の御料所で発生した不可能犯罪を調査するのは、権刑部卿・明智小壱郎光秀と、陰陽師・安倍天晴。「短編ミステリの二百年」で日本推理作家協会賞&本格ミステリ大賞を制した著者が、魔術が存在する“日の本”を舞台に贈る傑作本格ミステリ。