[Simple Synopsis] Takao Amamiya's Medical Mystery: The Locked-Room Paranoia (Minor Spoilers) [Mikito Chinen / Shincho Bunko]
"Have you ever heard of a 'cursed video'?"
The third installment in the Takao Amamiya's Medical Mystery series.
In this volume, Takao and Yu once again take on familiar yet mysterious symptoms that readers themselves could potentially suffer from.
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"Introduction"
Since the middle of October, the temperature has dropped sharply. Also, as the weather has not been very good lately, I think many people are spending more time at home or in their rooms. Reading during a little bit of free time before bed is also very productive. This time of year has long been called "autumn for reading," and since it is the perfect season to get into the right situation for reading, I would like to write my impressions of books that have left an impression on me recently or books that I bought and left in a pile. I am writing this with the hope that this review will make you even slightly interested in the work or the author, but please be aware that it contains "minor spoiler elements" such as characters and vague plot summaries.
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In this volume, as is customary for the series, the duo of Takao Amamiya, Director of the Department of General Diagnosis at Teni-kai General Hospital, and Yu Takanashi, solve cases involving patients exhibiting mysterious symptoms both inside and outside the hospital.
Karte.01 Into the Flash
"Have you ever heard of a 'cursed video'?"
Twin sisters Manatsu and Mafuyu Kimura, who are high school students.
On their way home from school, the two were talking about a cursed video that supposedly causes students who watch it to unconsciously run out into the road.
When the two tried watching the video, immediately after, various images flooded into Mafuyu's mind, and before she knew it, she had run out into the road...
Karte.02 The Rejecting Skin
"This... this isn't just some kind of phobia..."
Mae Okazaki, who came to see a psychiatrist saying, "I'm afraid of men."
Although the psychiatrist in charge diagnoses her with a strong suspicion of androphobia, immediately after, when a male hospital staff member takes Masae's hand,
it swells up as if her palm had been burned.
Karte.03 The Man Drowning in a Locked Room
“Moreover, it’s not just a simple murder case.”
“It’s a locked-room murder!”
Ryuichiro Kuwata, the director of Kuwata General Hospital, held a party to celebrate his birthday and the hospital's 35th anniversary.
However, during the event, Ryuichiro's son, Daiki, died in his study.
According to the emergency physician who tried to resuscitate Daiki, despite the scene being inside a study,
the cause of death showed symptoms of drowning, such as water filling his trachea.
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The three stories in this volume are also about 'familiar problems that one might have actually seen or heard of,' yet 'the causes of which one does not know in detail,' so I was intrigued from the beginning of the story, and when they were solved, it was very informative and satisfying.
I also likeKeigo Higashino's 'Galileo Series'and have read all of them,
but while the Galileo series follows a flow of scientifically elucidating phenomena that are unimaginable or impossible for a liberal arts person like me,
the Takao Amamiya's Medical Mystery seriestakes a form where one can imagine the phenomenon but doesn't know why it happens,
making it very easy to read, and both series are very interesting.
The Takao Amamiya's Medical Mystery series will continue, and there is also the spin-off series'Tsubasa Amamiya's Mind-Reading Medical Chart',so
I still have plenty to look forward to!
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