In a novel in this language, a string instrument is played to disguise the sound of a murder weapon being flung into the snow using string and a water wheel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this language used by a Mystery Writers Club, whose founder wrote “The Case of the Murder on D. Hill” and a story in which a man reshapes a sofa so that he can sit inside of it.
ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo] (The author is Edogawa Ranpo, who wrote “The Human Chair.”)
[10m] Mystery fiction influenced this Japanese novel in which a translator of the memoir Air Chrysalis and a hitwoman become entwined with a cult across two different worlds.
ANSWER: 1Q84 (one-Q-eighty four)
[10e] This Raymond Chandler translator wrote mystery-themed novels such as 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
ANSWER: Haruki Murakami
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