Oguri Mushitaro - Oguri Mushitaro

Mystery writer. His real name was Eijiro Oguri. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the commercial department of Keika Junior High School. In 1933 (Showa 8), he burst onto the mystery literary scene like a comet with his work "The Perfect Crime," which was based on a locked-room murder, and was published in "Shin Seinen." In the same year, he published "The Tragedy at St. Alexei's Cathedral," and the following year, "The Yumedono Murder Case." Alongside serious works, he also published a psychological crime novel, "Termites" (1935), and a new fantasy novel, "The Iron Mask of the Twentieth Century" (1936), but it was "The Black Death Mansion Murder Case" (1934) that reached the pinnacle of his style, making full use of Van Dine's brilliant pedantry, tricks, and super-logic.

[Jun Atsugi]

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推理作家。本名小栗栄次郎。東京生まれ。京華中学商業科卒業。1933年（昭和8）密室殺人をテーマにした『完全犯罪』を『新青年』に発表して彗星(すいせい)のように推理文壇に登場した。同年『聖アレキセイ寺院の惨劇』、翌年『夢殿殺人事件』を発表。本格物のかたわら犯罪心理小説『白蟻(しろあり)』（1935）、新伝奇小説『二十世紀鉄仮面』（1936）などを発表したが、バン・ダイン流の絢爛(けんらん)たるペダントリー（衒学(げんがく)性）とトリックと超論理を駆使してその作風の頂点を極めたのは『黒死館殺人事件』（1934）である。

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