Jack the Poetical Private (1997) by MORI Hiroshi

In 2013, the Breakthrough Bandwagon Books translated and published over half a dozen short stories by MORI Hiroshi, associate professor, engineer and somewhat of an experimental mystery writer, which included two short stories in his popular S&M series, "Sekitō no yane kazan" ("The Rooftop Ornaments of Stone Ratha," 1999) and "Dochiraka ga majo" ("Which is the Witch?," 2001) – collected under the title Seven Stories (2016). We had to wait until 2022 for the BBB to translate, serialize and publish the first S&M novel, Subete ga F ni naru (Everything Turns to F: The Perfect Insider, 1996). Since then, the BBB has published MORI Hiroshi's S&M novels Tsumetai misshitsu to hakase tachi (Doctors in the Isolated Room, 1996), Warawanai sugakusha (Mathematical Goodbye, 1996) and recently Shiteki shiteki Jack (Jack the Poetical Private, 1997).MORI Hiroshi's Jack the Poetical Private, translated by Ryusui Seiryoin, differs from the previous novels as the plot has no fixed location. The Perfect…