"Houkago Tantei-Tai" by KURACHI Jun

Mr. Kurachi is a Japanese mystery writer. I think all of his books are extremely good, though he is a very slow writer. The English title by the author is "The Case of the Missing Useless Things", while the Japanese title means something like "The Detective Team After School." This is one of a series 'Mystery Land', which is written by many Japanese mystery writers.

In the third class of the fifth grade in an elementary school a serial cases occurred. A drawing, a hen, a hollow doll of invitation cat, and a tubular part of a soprano recorder were stolen almost every other day. Who stole them? and why??? The detective team consists of four pupils of this class began to investigate the case...

All Japanese characters (Kanji) have kana, which show how to pronounce, and this book contains fewer characters in a page than usual. This style is the policy of this series, and it must be in consideration of elementary and/or junior high school students. The content is very familiar for them, but adults also be able to enjoy this story. I believe this series is also very useful for Japanese learners.

(Finished reading on Mar.12, 2008)


The more detailed Japanese version of this article is here!

Japanese character(s) (kanji)
* KURACHI Jun : 倉知淳
* Houkago Tantei-Tai : ほうかご探偵隊