A compilation of 20 detective stories and 6 essays and miscellaneous writings by Japan's first female detective writer, Ookura Teruko.

*Title: 梓(zǐ) referencing to Chinese Catalpa(a tree with creamy white flowers);琴(qín): a musical instrument such as a guqin or zither Not knowing how many times in the middle of the night dreaming about the past, there is always a soft voice whisper

On the wedding night, she was tied to his bed. "Woman, you dare marry another man!" He was like a wolf as he devoured her until nothing was left. "So the person forcing me into bed was you! You beast in human skin!" She bit her teeth as she push

While Aida Kiyoka is working at her part-time cleaning job, she suddenly trips to a parallel universe. A kind lady takes her in and she begins her new life there. However she faces one big problem, normal households in this world do not have bathtubs! As

Regardless of what country Each country had to fight for the right to exist Let us together to experience that unprecedented war Let us revisit the greatest war in human history, the Second World War .

Starting from today, i'm retired. But what should I be doing? I neither have the skills, nor the mind to do business, my only advantage are these hands which have taken this world. What a headache..

Jade Hunter? The man which many women want to meet? If she really was a girl, then if she were to dress in a female attire… wouldn't she look beautiful and refine? She is his fiancee? Could it be that she disguised herself as a man to avoid marriage? Sh

In a hilarious and sweet xianxia romance set in Ancient China, Lu Zhao Yao went through life living ostentatiously in every way possible. She lived her entire demon life in a loud and brazen manner, reigning over legions of demons, and yet——just before

Shen Miao, the Di daughter of a military lineage, pure, amiable, quiet and yielding, foolishly in love with Prince Ding, threw herself into the role of a wife. After assisting her husband for six years, she finally became the mother of the world (Empres

The ancestral grave of the Su has great feng shui; others bow and beg for sons, but they can easily have nine. When they wanted a daughter, Su Ran Ran is born. As the only daughter, she's treated and treasured like a princess, rendering her a bit mischie

Xia Yuqing is a shut-in+fujoshi from the 21st century. After an accident, she transmigrates into the body of a young princess forced into a political marriage to another country.

For five millennia human kind flourished military technology advanced. In the whole milky way galaxy they found no equal, only but primitive life form to enslave planets system and star system to conquer. The greed of mankind set their sight on the neighb

She is daughter of a marquis. People only know she is timid and cowardly, yet they don´t know that imperial capital´s famous and awing the world´s "slender gentleman" is her. Promised 10 years marriage and painstakingly waited 4 years´ groom, one

What if I told you aliens were real? Would you believe me or just laugh at the ridiculous statement that I just proposed? This is my story of how I came in contact with a group of interdimensional aliens.WARNING: PLEASE READ WITH AN OPEN MIND.

The story of a young man who yearned for space and a vampire girl. The first astronaut in the history of mankind was a vampire girl—-. It's the era where manned spaceflight has not yet succeeded. The supreme leader of the republic announced the pr

The Gates mercenary group is well-known far and wide as a powerful force rivaling a country's army. It is said that just a presence of its members is already equal to victory. Most powerful of them is the one called Red Scarf ,a moniker that came from a

When I noticed, I was surrounded by a bunch of people wearing kimonos. When I looked into the river water, what was there was a young child… Eh, it's me!? The place where I washed ashore was a gaudy neighborhood, Yoshiwara. Huh? But it looks like the

It was just an ordinary day. Beating somebody in a chess match for a hundred bucks then going to her part time job at an antique shop. Lilia didn't know what went wrong when she suddenly found herself in ancient china. Walking around and meeting a soldie

Wei Qiqi is the only successor of Wei Corps inheriting a hefty fortune. However, her stepmother bribed a witch from Thailand harming her with two ancient witchcraft curses. The first: is to send her off to an era of chaotic war with no way of returning

One line intro? ——————— It's about a girl, that transmigrated into the body of a infamously known (but hardly anyone has ever seen 'him' with their own eyes) martial arts genius &male playboy, but the body is actually female?! A little bit mor

This spring, an imperial edict has been issued, just like it does every year. Young women from all over the empire are houled together and brought to the imperial palace, to become concubines of the Emperor, as is Wei Yin. Wei Yin is first and only grandd

She transmigrated into an orphan, thinking that she still had her boyfriend with her, yet in an instant, her world crashed. For the position of heir, he said, "Yao'er, why don't you become my second wife?" A sentence destroyed her wishful thinking, ca

He is the emperor who rules the whole of China, except he is unable to control his own heart. Without her, ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains are just like dust. Ruan Wu Shuang: She is the daughter of the current prime minister. Her natural di

In childhood, they were neighbors. Xie Zhen always bullied Li Yu. Who told him to be as beautiful as a girl? After parting for many years, they met again in the capital. With a tall stature and heroic bearing, he seemed like a completely different per

I, Xu Duo Qian, the owner of this ugly name never expects to encounter something like time-travelling. "I am not wangfei. I am not wangfei.. I am not—–" my throat has gone dry from saying that. But the cold-faced person in front didn't even react