地球儀のあるカフェ globe terrestre

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In the center of the coffee shop there is a globe. Customers turn to satelites.

(@ヴェローチェ、小石川、Koishikawa, Bunkyo ward)

マッチ箱 boite d'allumettes

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The owner chef of the Hiro has unique ideas of decoration.

(@ヒロ,西荻北２丁目、Nishiogikita, Suginami ward)

たまりつけ焼き porc a la sauce Tamari

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Tamari sauce is a kind of soy sauce. This pork is dipped in the Tamari sauce and grilled. The pork with Tamari sauce tastes softer and sweeter than the one with ordinery soy sauce.

(@ヒロ,西荻北２丁目、Nishiogikita, Suginami ward)

シブースト Chiboust

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For this traditional french cake, Chiboust, a confectioner uses a creme chiboust. The recept is very complicate and the process is difficult. But the taste is simply delicious.

(@ヴェローチェ、小石川、Koishikawa, Bunkyo ward)

廃線脇 chemin de fer hors services

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In my third mystery, I used this place where the professional hit-man left his victim and car . Abandoned rail road beside the road. This is a very deserted and lonely place.

Shoot The Scene by Ellery Queen

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Shoot The Scene by Ellery Queen
Dell Publishing co., Inc. 1966 0.5 $.

I bought this book at the Sendai Maruzen Book store ,in 1967 and I've forgotten it for fourty years. I remember the first ten pages to remember why I've forgoten it so long time. This Ellery Queen's book is not a Detektive Ellery Queen's mystery. So I lost my concern about the book. The roll of the detektive is a Hollywood screenwriter, Casey Blake and not Ellery Queen! I was a teenager mystery reader. Ellery Queen is now one of my heroes. Casey Blake? Who is he?

Ellery Queen have (I dare write "have")a career as a screenwriter for a short time in their lives. The experience made them write a splendid novel, The Heart of Four. And they wrote this one, too.

Casey Blake is under a Big King of Hollywood, a great producer, Joe Maddox.
Joe loves Blake's talent of screenwriting so that Joe admitted Casey to use his villa for the holidays. The villa has no telephone. So Joe can spend his free time without bothering with Hollywood society, especially with Madeline D'Archy who is the most famous movie actress and sex queen of the world.

He spend his time to do surf casting and fishing.
One night he is awakened with two masked men who have kidnapped the wife of Joe Maddox and think nobody in the villa of the off Summer season. The first man is
a tall and the second man is short. They get astonished by the existence of Casey to confine him together. Two gangs are gentlmen. They start to negotiate with Joe about the ransom. Joe and friends actors report to FBI. The kidnappers request Joe to bring the rasom by himself. But Joe's relative actor proposes to play Joe's roll. During the time, Madeline visits to the villa with her underwares and swiming clothes. The number of hostages become three. The kiddnappers annoy with the selfish requests of the sex queen of Hollywood.
The kidnappers succeed to get ransom with tricks against the FBI. And at the last stage of recieving ransom, the catastropph occurs. One of the kidnappers shoots the relative of Joe who resembles to Joe too much.
At last police find three persons in good conditions in the villa.
And Casey start to deduce who are the criminals.

I've become a tough reader of mystery for these fourty years. So tough that I could deduce the true criminal before Casey does.

And now I remember the fact that I read this papaerbook through thirty years ago and I only remembered the answer!

But I can remember the seashore of California. I miss the smell of the sea and fogs and the sound of waves. This is a happy California story.