Isho Haitatsu Jin (Tokuma Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Detective Muneroi shares a room with a former ward office employee at a pilgrimage inn in Shikoku. He was on a journey to deliver wills to the bereaved families of the sick and homeless he had been involved with during his working days. The will in his possession that day belonged to a homeless man who was attacked and killed while sleeping in Shinjuku. The necklace he had bought for his daughter was missing at the time of his death. The same item was caught on the security camera of a convenience store robbery in Tokyo (title story). A total of nine masterpieces of lyrical mysteries with a beautiful, sad aftertaste.

棟居刑事は四国の遍路宿で元区役所職員と相部屋になる。彼は現役時代に関わった行路病者やホームレスの遺書を、遺族に届ける旅をしていた。その日所持していた遺書の主は、新宿で就眠中を襲われ死亡したホームレス。娘に買ったネックレスが死亡時には紛失していたという。同じ物が東京で起きたコンビニ強盗事件の防犯カメラに映っていた(表題作)。切ない余韻が美しい叙情推理の傑作全九篇。