Devils in Daylight

One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poes The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly when and where a murder will take placeand they must hurry if they want to witness the murder, because its later that very night! Sonomura has a history of lunacy and playing the amateur detective, so Takahashi is of course reluctant to believe him. Nevertheless, they stake out the secret location, and through tiny peepholes in the knotted wood, become voyeurs at the scene of a shocking crime Atmospheric, erotic, and tense, Devils in Daylight is an early work by the master storyteller who created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy (Chicago Tribune).