Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de SP - Kazamatsuri Keibu no Jikenbo (2013)

Inspector Kazamatsuri Kyoichiro of Kokuritsu Police Precinct is the boss of Hosho Reiko. He does not know that the riddles of the cases he is in charge of are always solved by Kageyama, the butler who serves Reiko. However, Kazamatsuri shrewdly takes all the credit for solving them. Then the strangest thing happens. Kazamatsuri wins the World Police Championship, which is also called the Olympics for police officers, by luck and becomes the world’s best detective. Made an honorary citizen of Kokuritsu City, Kazamatsuri gets a pair of accommodation coupons for a hot spring inn, which he gives as a gift to his long-time maid Mitsukawa. This hot spring is a secret hot spring deeper into the interior than Okutama. Hearing that it has always been famous as a “village of beauties”, Kazamatsuri declares that he is going too. He and Mitsukawa arrive at the inn called Urashima Honjin. When the clerk Kanamori greets them, a woman’s scream comes from the direction of the storehouse. Kazamatsuri rushes over to find a trembling guest, Sato Natsuki, standing in front of the storehouse and a serving lady named Maeda Toshiko desperately trying to open the lattice door. Blood drips from a gap in the netting, and then they discover that the proprietress, Kodama Kinue, is dead. At that moment, Reiko is in a limousine driven by Kageyama. She seems happy to line up her newly purchased shoes, which she will be bringing along on the weekend cruise to Singapore. Then, she receives a message from Kazamatsuri, who sounds excited about the possible murder case that occurred at a hot spring which he had visited in private. An investigation is launched at the scene. The storehouse was locked from the inside, and Kinue died from a blow to the head by a vase. She is the only one who has the key to the storehouse. Strangely, the dead body was on its back with the face looking at the ceiling, but the mascara on both eyes ran towards the left. Kazamatsuri questions people related to the inn. Kodama Kazumi and Kotomi are daughters of Kinue’s husband’s former marriage, and they have been running the inn with Kinue. However, it appears that they have been fighting to be her successor. Toshiko has been bullied by the two sisters and even overworked by Kinue. The head chef, Tezuka, has a prison record for assault. When Kazamatsuri examines the crime scene again, he discovers a new sash decorated with camellias placed inside a wooden box. Furthermore, one of the coins at the feet of the statue of a Buddhist deity has fallen off. That night, while Kazamatsuri goes to take a bath, he passes a door with a notice saying, ‘Please do not open’. When he tries to open the door, he is stopped by Kanamori, who is passing by. Kanamori starts to talk about the reason why they do not open up this space. ~~ Adapted from the novel “Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de” (謎解きはディナーのあとで) by Higashikawa Tokuya (東川篤哉). Edit Translation

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