何かしらポップでさわやかな，そして切ない気持ちになるミステリーです。タイトルから受けた，冷たくて，シリアスな印象は見事に覆されました。横浜は馬車道を舞台とするこのお話は，設定や登場人物がとっても魅力的です。
It’s a mystery somewhat pop, refreshing and also something makes you feel wistful pang. My first impression that it would feel cold and serious was perfectly shattered. This story which is set in Bashamichi in Yokohama city is blessed with attractive settings and characters.
本格的なコーヒーを味わえる喫茶店「ペガサス」のマスター毅志（たけし）は，空いていた２階の事務所に借り手が付くことになり安心していました。不動産屋の仲介で，顔合わせに喫茶店へとやってきたのは，２人の男でした。一人は皆藤，もう一人は山南と名乗るこの２人の職業は私立探偵だったのです。探偵事務所兼，住居として２階に居ついてからというもの，毎朝，下りてきては美味そうにコーヒーを飲む彼らの気さくさに好感を抱いた毅志は，やがて探偵の仕事を手伝うようになるのでした。そんなある日，皆藤と山南がいつになく深刻な面持ちで毅志に一つの仕事への協力を求めてきます。それは，ただの調査などではなく，非合法すれすれのかたき討ちのようなものでした。違和感と，多少の疑念を覚えながらも，毅志は復讐に加担してしまうのですが……。
Takeshi who is the owner of a café called Pegasus was relieved to hear that there will be new tenants for the upstairs room of his building. Two guys come to see him at his café through the intermediation of a real estate agent. They introduced themselves as Kaitoh and Yamanami, private detectives. They often come down to the café to savor Takeshi’s coffee since they began to use the upstairs room as the office and also their home, Takeshi comes to like them due to their friendliness and he begins to help their jobs. One day, Kaitoh and Yamanami asks Takeshi, in unusual serious mood, to lend a hand with a job. The job is not just an investigation but something like a retaliation which is almost illegal. Although having an uncomfortable feeling and a little bit doubt, he ends up getting involved in the vengeance.
思いがけない展開に，夢中になって一晩で読み通しました。話としては完結しているのですが，さらに続きを読みたい気になる読後感でした。無知な自分は，貫井徳郎さんを知りませんでした。９３年にデビューした著者は，これまでに多数の著書があるようです。それらを読むのがとても楽しみです。
I was so absorbed in reading this book that I finished it just overnight due to the plot which is really unpredictable. I felt like reading the sequel, not existing though, to the story when I finished. I was so ignorant that I didn’t know Nukui Tokuro, the author, at all. He debuted in 1993, so he has written many books so far. Now I’m very looking forward to reading them.
