川手连连接到扬言要杀灭他全家的匿名信,惶恐之下,只得求助于法学专家宗像博士。谁知博士刚一介入,他的得力助手便惨死在凶手的屠刀之下。接着,凶手便在众目睽睽之下,按照他的杀人预告一一将川手的家人杀死。更加让人震惊的是:凶手每杀一人,总是留下一个只有传说中的妖魔鬼怪才有的三重涡状指纹。这究竟是怎么回事?难道真有魔鬼现身?这一绝妙无比的迷宫式谋杀又是怎样形成?直至神探小五郎的介入,这才真相大白于天下…… Chuan hand even connected to threatened to kill his family’s anonymous letter, panic, had resorted to the legal expert Dr. Zong Xiang. Who knows when Dr. involvement, his right-hand man died in the murderer’s butcher. Then, the murderer will be under the watchful eyes, according to his homicide notice one by one will be Kawabata’s family killed. Even more shocking is that each murderer killed, always leaving only a legendary monster ghost only three vortex-like fingerprint. What is going on? Is it true that the devil appeared? How did this wonderful maze of murder happen? It was only when the detective Kogoro intervened that this was the truth ...