Akutagawa Ryunosuke - In A Grove (1921)
When a man's body is found just off a mountain road and his wife disappears, the local police chief interrogates a range of witnesses and suspects. Their accounts, however, do not tally.
Did the highwayman Tajomaru kill the husband in a duel after raping the wife? Or did she kill her husband, convinced that he despised her after her defilement by the robber? Or perhaps the husband committed suicide after all? Who is speaking the truth in this fast-paced crime tale?
The audio version of the story (read by Seishi Yamane, Pica and Zenji Hashimoto) has been divided into seven soundfiles
1. The Woodcutter
2. The Priest
3. The Police Officer
4. The Old Woman
5. The Robber
6. The Young Woman
7. The Dead Man