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The Dinner Table Detective

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Season 1 · 10 episodes

E1
Please remove your shoes at a crime scene

Kageyama and Reiko solve the mystery of a young woman's mysterious murder in her own apartment, seemingly without any traces of forced entry.

E2
How do you fancy some deadly wine?

Kageyama and Reiko solve the mystery of a man's apparent suicide by poison.

E3
Please be careful of infidelity

While investigating the murder of a real estate tycoon, Reiko examines an erased dying message, a bloody trophy, and a cord yanked from the curtains. Without proof, however, she reaches a dead end...until savage butler Kageyama emerges to …

E4
The bride is inside the locked room

With Kageyama as her chauffeur, Reiko and her friends visit a crowded summer festival, where a cracked smartphone is discovered. Its owner was poisoned in his apartment, and he died wearing nothing but briefs. Three women the victim dated …

E5
Do you require an alibi

Women of differing heights are spotted at the crime scene. Kageyama suspects that elevator shoes disguised the murderer's appearance. After learning that the victim had scammed several women via dating apps, Reiko inches closer to the trut…

E6
The beautiful roses are murderous

After a delivery man falls to his death, Reiko and Kyoichiro investigate his connection to popular VTuber "Kuru Kuru-Chan," who is blamed for the murder by fans online. Kageyama assists in analyzing a mystery figure planting bugs, untouche…

E7
After committing murder please do not forget to take your hat

A famous painter is stabbed in his own studio, pointing to his masterpiece wall painting "Sleeping Beauty" just before dying. Suspects include his art-jacking son, his second wife, and an art magazine writer with whom he supposedly had an …

E8
Welcome to the murderous party

Kageyama locates a secret passageway to solve the locked-room murder mystery. Upon encountering a deranged woman wielding a knife, Reiko is left with nowhere to escape. On the next case, a white-suited journalist's body is discovered by th…

E9
Here is the message from the deceased on this holy night

Journalist Ryota Ishiguro's body is found on the riverbank, but although the cause of his death is drowning, the body is dry. Reiko's investigations lead her to Shiho and Satoshi Kambara, a loving couple from whom Ishiguro had been demandi…

E10
Here is the message from the deceased on this holy night

A woman's body is found in a bed of blooming roses at the prestigious Fujikura residence. The victim is Toshio Fujikura's fiancée, and the suspects include members of the family. Reiko, who happens to be their neighbor, is fearful that her…