Koro No Yume (Gakken M Bunko I - 12 - 7 Furoshiki Doshin Goyo Cho)

[Machine Translation] A woman working at a teahouse was murdered. In her hand was a piece of fossil, a strange stone. The "fossil hunter," whose wife was kidnapped, receives a threatening letter from a mysterious gang, asking him to "find the strange stone of the bird of immortality. Shingo Kondo, the first assistant magistrate of the Minamimachi Magistrate's Office, is determined to solve the case, but... This is the seventh installment in the popular series about the exploits of a sympathetic Doushin who says that the bigger the hoax, the better.

茶屋勤めの女が殺された。その掌には奇石、いわゆる化石の欠片が握り締められていた。そして、女房を拐かされた"化石狩り人"のもとに、「不死の鳥の奇石を探し出せ」という脅迫状が、謎の一味から届けられた。事件を解決すべく、懸命に一味の影を追う南町奉行所筆頭同心の近藤信吾だったが…。法螺は大きいほどいいと嘯く、人情同心の活躍を描く好評シリーズ第七弾。