A two-book set of mystery novels by Seicho Matsumoto: "The Place I Didn't Ask About" and "The End of Disappearance." "The Place I Didn't Ask About" tells the story of Asai, a section chief in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, who is informed of his wife's death while in Kobe on business. That evening, during a banquet hosted by a local food processing company, a waitress from the restaurant informs him of a phone call from his home in Tokyo. The news was unbelievable. (Where was Eiko walking when her attack occurred?) His wife, Eiko, suddenly dies of a heart attack while out. On the train back home, Asai thinks. And then, as told by his sister-in-law, the place in Yoyogi, Tokyo, was a town his wife had never mentioned. This is a revenge suspense story depicting the tragedy of a government official caught up in an unexpected fate while pursuing the truth of his wife's death. "The End of Disappearance" tells the story of a middle-aged professor from the Faculty of Science at Q University who disappears on his way home from the university and is found hanged in a room in a mansion in Akasaka. Suicide or murder? Suspicion of murder arises from suspicious points such as the fact that he died in a place he had never mentioned, and that his notebook, which he usually kept in his bag, was in his pocket. The investigation focused on the pursuit of a mysterious woman, based on the testimony of a couple in the next room who heard the professor and a young woman talking... This collection includes six masterpieces of mystery short stories that show a variety of changes in the themes of the times, human beings, and crime. Offered for sale to organize the storage.