Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it's packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen.

大治郎は、父の名代でかつての剣友の見舞のため箱根へ向かった。山道ですれ違った浪人の身体からは剣気が噴き出していた。夜更けの湯宿で大治郎はまたしてもその浪人に会った。―剣客商売（4）より―（時代小説）朗読者：神谷尚武

Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad suspects otherwise. This apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck's best detectives - and he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason.

ライトノベル作家になるにはどうすればいいか?『カオスレギオン』など数々のヒット作を世に送り出し、『マルドゥック・スクランブル』『天地明察』で一世を風靡した冲方丁が、創作のプロセスを公開した“伝説の書”が新装版で再登場!執筆時のプロットをそのまま公開する型破りな手法に、「シュピーゲル」シリーズをはじめとする代表作の創作過程を新たに語り下ろした特別インタビューを加え、ライトノベルの書き方を徹底指南。