Daitokyo Yotsuya Kaidan (Kadokawa Bunko)

[Machine Translation] A playwright who is writing a "modern version of Yotsuya Ghost Story" receives repeated threatening phone calls from a woman claiming to be Oiwa, demanding that he stop writing the play. As if to back up her words, a craftsman working on a wax doll of Oiwa is murdered... This is the beginning of a series of murders in the style of Yotsuya Ghost Story. I, Kazuko Murata, a cheerful widow, set out to solve the case together with a mysterious detective, Lonin Sumino. This is an authentic detective novel that goes beyond the ordinary and breaks rank.

「現代版四谷怪談」を書き下ろす劇作家のもとに、お岩を名乗る女から執筆を中止せよと再三脅迫電話がかかる。そして、その言葉を裏付けるように、お岩の蝋人形を制作中の職人が殺害された…これが、四谷怪談をなぞる連続殺人の幕開けだった。陽気な未亡人こと私・村田和子は、謎の名探偵・墨野隴人と共に事件解決にのりだすが-?格をきわめて格を破る、本格、変格ならぬ、破格探偵小説。