Kanekashi (Futaba Bunko Fu 16-64 Shinshiranuga Hambe Tebikae Jo)

[Machine Translation] A young man dressed as a shinba (footman) was stranded on the Shinba Bridge over the Kaede River, carrying an old man who had wandered off on his back. Hanbei Shirazuti, a Kitamachi Doshin who was present when the old man was handed over safely to a relative who was looking for him, learned that the young man in the human legs was a samurai by the name of Iori Aoyama. A few days later, a moneylender named Yihei and a collector named Seiji were slashed to death by Shoheibashi Bridge. Hanbei begins his search and finds the name of Iori Aoyama in the Iori's loan certificate that Yihei had kept. Hanbei, who boasts, "There are some things in this world that are better left unnoticed," is the twenty-first in a newly written and popular series about his humanistic judgment.

楓川に架かる新場橋で人足姿の若者が迷子になった老人を背負って立ち往生していた。老人を捜していた身寄りの者に無事引き渡す場に居合わせた北町同心の白縫半兵衛は、人足姿の若者が青山伊織という名の武家であることを知る。その数日後、昌平橋の袂で金貸しの義平と取立屋の清次が何者かに斬り殺された。探索を開始した半兵衛は、義平が保管していた借用証文の中に青山伊織の名前を見つける―。「世の中には知らん顔をした方が良いこともあるさ」と嘯く半兵衛の人情裁きを描く、書き下ろし人気シリーズ第二十一弾。