It was before dawn, with snow falling and the silence broken by the sound of a koto— The first installment of the legendary "Kindaichi Kosuke series." The famous detective, known to all, takes on a perfectly locked-room mystery. Selected as one of Time magazine's "The 100 Best Mystery & Thriller Books of All Time." A beautiful and complete comic adaptation of this world-renowned masterpiece of Japanese mystery. Note: While some expressions in the story are now considered inappropriate, we have respected the original and adopted them as they are.