The Glass Tower M*rders

How had things come to this?

Sitting down on the long-piled carpet with his back to the wall of the stairwell, Ichijou Yuma looked up at the sky.

Before he’d realized, the clear sky had been covered by heavy clouds, and a light snow had begun to fall across the transparent glass enclosing the space.

The display room, approximately ten meters in diameter and covered by a glass cone, had become a prison.

He had been stuck in there for hours. The cold of the carpet seeped through his trousers and into his hips, chilling him to the bone. Yuma adjusted the collar of the wrinkled old coat he wore to ward off the cold – apparently the same one Peter Falk had worn while filming Columbo – and shrank inwards.

“Where did it all go wrong…?”

The question spilled unconsciously from between his lips.

Was it when he’d approached Kozushima Tarou with mu*der in his heart? Or was it when he decided to attend the mysterious banquet held at the Glass Tower, thinking it was the perfect opportunity? Or…

“…Was it when I met that great detective?”

The soft words, exhaled with his white breath, melted away into the cold air.

There was no point thinking about it now. Yuma put his head between his knees. It was all over.

This story, The Glass House mu*ders, had already come to a close.

The truth had been uncovered by the great detective, and he, the culprit, had been arrested.

The bizarre series of locked room mu*ders that had taken place in that glass spire had been solved. There was nothing left for the culprit to do but quietly leave the stage.

Yuma slowly closed his eyes.

The image of the great detective, a cynical smile on her handsome face, was engraved on the backs of his eyelids.

Ichijou Yuma, a private doctor, poisons his employer, a billionaire geneticist and collector of mystery memorabilia, in order to prevent him from suing to block the release of a new treatment that would save his sister’s life. However, Yuma and the rest of Kozushima’s guests subsequently find themselves trapped in Kozushima’s bizarre home, the Glass Tower. And the following morning, the butler, Mr. Oita, is found stabbed to death in the locked dining hall.

A crime Yuma didn’t commit.

Yuma becomes the assistant of the eccentric “real life great detective” Aoi Tsukiyo in hopes that following her will allow him to discover the identity of Oita’s killer and frame him for Kozushima’s death – all the while fearing that Oita’s killer is searching for him with the same intention.

A great detective with two mu*derers… who will win the tragic battle of wits?