Shoka No Tantei, Kashidashi Chu (Shin Hayakawa SF Series)

[Machine Translation] E.A. Smith is a bionic E.A. Smith, equipped with the memories and emotions of the mystery writer E.A. Smith before his death. He is a "collector" who lives in a library and lives in the stacks. Smith has been sent to the library of a seaside village through the interlibrary loan system. There he is loaned out to a young girl, Chandra, who lives with her mother and asks him to find her father, who disappeared many years ago. Her father, a professor of anatomy, left behind a leather-bound book with a map of a "corpse island" with an extremely cold ice cave on it.... Meanwhile, Smith discovers the corpse of an old "version" of himself in the library! This science fiction mystery is the sequel to "The Detective in the Library," the unfinished last work of the master storyteller Wolfe.

推理作家E・A・スミスの生前の記憶や感情を備えた複生体のE・A・スミス。彼は図書館に収蔵され、書架に住む“蔵者”である。このたびスミスは、図書館間相互貸借の制度によって、海沿いの村の図書館に送られた。そこで母親と暮らす少女チャンドラに借り出された彼は、何年も前に姿を消した彼女の父親探しを頼まれる。解剖学教授の父親は革装の本を残しており、その本には極寒の氷穴がある“死体の島”の地図が貼りつけられていた...。そんななか、スミスは図書館で自身の古い“版”の死体を発見するが!?巨匠ウルフの未完の遺作となった、『書架の探偵』続篇のSFミステリ。