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A monument of Heisei mystery fiction! The timeless masterpiece of the "Takeshi Yoshiki Series" arrives in a definitive complete edition.
A murder triggered by outrage over 12 yen in tax?!
A clown vanishing on a snowy night train?!
A walking corpse?!
A giant scooping up a train?!
Bizarre mysteries converge into one—!
It is 1989, the dawn of the Heisei era, shortly after the introduction of Japan’s consumption tax. A female shopkeeper is stabbed to death over a mere twelve-yen tax discrepancy. As the arrested old man maintains complete silence, Detective Takeshi Yoshiki of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division delves into a massive mystery buried deep beneath the crime—one stretching back more than thirty years.
Standing by the vulnerable as he relentlessly pursues the truth, what grand trick will Detective Yoshiki ultimately uncover...?
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