Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another! Based on the Edogawa Rampo story, "Hell's Clown."
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
A woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear.
An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.
Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover, a hostess, she implies she's going to commit suicide. In a panic to get to her quickly, Yutaka punches a man at a taxi stand. The next day, when Yutaka's lover hears the news about a man dying and realizes it was the man Yutaka punched, she demands money...
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new friends join forces to fight the evil force that threatens them all.
#42 in the series, following "Dark Judgment"
A wife murdered by her husband borrows the forms of her supposedly dead sister and a cat and takes revenge.
A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then, finally, a murder occurs.
The surgeon's mother-in-law plots to have her son's mistress give birth and drive out his wife.
A wife remarries after her doctor husband dies in a stormy lake, but is distressed when he appears in her dreams every night.