💧 Week 4 | 水車館の殺人 🩸 | Mystery Book Club

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水車館の殺人

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Week Chapter(s) (MT) Page Range (MT) Total # Pages (cat) Total # Pages
Week 4 第八章 & 第九章 149-205 57 46

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I can’t understand 紀一’s thought process here. He doesn’t use the room, so it doesn’t matter if he can open the door or not? Was the room completely empty or does he just not need the things in there? And wouldn’t you want to at least be able to clean the room from time to time? It’s not that hard to have a replacement key made. The only way this makes sense to me is if he was lying, but if so it’s not a very convincing lie.

正木’s ring got brought up several times now. This could be just so we know that the finger in the prologue really belongs to him, but it might also become relevant in a different way later.

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He’s totally lying. What d’you bet that the missing man’s remains the mysterious picture are both in there?

I’m wondering if it’s to remind us he was engaged. Maybe his fiance will be relevant at some later point?

Did anyone else feel like the explanation of ‘wet carpet = someone was on the balcony’ went on way too long? As soon as he explained there was wet floor ahead of them as they returned inside I was like ‘ah yeah, someone was on the balcony’ but then they still went and explained it to death :skull:

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