Book 3 Chapter 7: The Mystery of the Hanging House (Pgs. 387-390) Summary

The Miyawaki house is called "The Hanging House" because the entire family dies in the residence after Kojiro Miyawaki's financial ruin. The current owner is a company known as Akasaka Research.

Book 3 Chapter 7: The Mystery of the Hanging House (Pgs. 387-390) Analysis

This is an interesting shift in point of view. The absence of a concrete narrator means that the reader can take what is printed at face value. A newspaper article suggests some form of legitimacy. Moreover, the mention of the Miyawaki property lends the whole neighborhood a certain air of mystery. People who read a paper such as this one are interested in mild sensationalism. While the crimes which take place in the Miyawaki house are certainly tragic, what happens there now is...