The Man Who Read (And Disliked) Alice Arisugawa
HARUO YUKI Born in 1993. In 2019, he won the Mephisto Prize for Successor to the Hanging Company and debuted that same year with the retitled The Hanging Company . The Ark , published in 2022, became a hot topic after sweeping various mystery rankings and was nominated for the Booksellers' Award. His other works include The Circus Enforcer , Clock Thieves & Crooks , The Ten Commandments , and Salome's Guillotine . 1 The trip from Tokyo took the whole day. I met with my editor, Mr. Mitobe, at Shinagawa Station at nine in the morning, and we took the Shinkansen to Okayama, then a local train, then a bus. There weren't many buses this far out, so we had to wait for two hours at the bus stop. When we got off the bus just before sunset, I could see the hot spring inn where we'd be staying on the other side of the river. It...