岛田庄司 / Shimada Soji
岛田庄司 is the Japanese mystery writer discussed in 144. 被诅咒的木乃伊：福尔摩斯会和老舍联手探案吗？ through 《被诅咒的木乃伊》, also known in Chinese by the older title 《夏目漱石伦敦杀人事件》. The episode presents this book as a relatively cold or less central Shimada work, but one that remains useful for understanding how Japanese mystery can borrow 福尔摩斯 while adding Japanese literary and comic machinery.
His source-scoped role is not only as a puzzle maker. In this episode, Shimada builds a Holmes pastiche around 夏目漱石, 华生, a fake mummy curse, and two competing manuscripts. The result keeps a 本格推理 skeleton, but the host stresses that the book’s charm comes from voice, spoofing, real-person insertion, and cross-cultural misunderstanding as much as from the final mechanism.