The Beautiful Wife's Favorite Murder Device of Horror
An ordinary guy who doesn't have much physical appeals to others had just married a beautiful woman, and when another pretty woman flirted with him, he completely got carried away and cheated on his newly-wedded wife. Now the mistress demands that he divorce his wife or she will hang herself, which she did and died across the street in the building where the guy was able to see her through his window. Police came, news got spread, and the beautiful wife learned about the mistress and left the guy. It is a common love-triangle-gone-bad situation, only that the guy claims that he had seen somebody trying to hang herself in the exact same manner in the exact same unit across the street only a week ago. What did he really saw? Or does he really have the ability of premonition?
栗林の友人である菅原の浮気相手が、菅原の向かいのマンションで首吊り自殺する。それから半年後、妻とは離婚させられ、多額の慰謝料を支払った菅原から、事件の一週間前にも同じ自殺シーンを見たと聞かされた栗林は、湯川と内海に相談を持ちかける。湯川は、予知さながらの出来事に興味を持ち、解明に乗り出す。
쿠리바야시의 친구인 스가와라의 불륜 상대가, 스가와라의 정면의 맨션에서 목을 매 자살한다. 그리고 반년 후, 아내와는 이혼당해 고액의 위자료를 지불한 스가와라로부터, 사건의 일주일 전에도 같은 자살 장면을 보았다고 들은 쿠리바야시는, 유카와와 우츠미에게 상담을 요청한다. 유카와는, 예지같은 사건에 흥미를 가져, 해명에 나선다.
助手栗林突然找湯川和薰商談一件不可思議的事。
事件發生在半年之前，栗林的朋友菅原與靜子結婚後馬上與冬美發生外遇。某天，菅原大學時代的後輩峰村來他家玩，他突然接到冬美的電話，因為菅原不答應跟妻子離婚，因此冬美在他對面公寓的一個房間裏上吊自殺了。此後，菅原跟靜子離婚了，還給了她贍養費。菅原早就預料到這場自殺了，因為事發前一個星期他在同一個地方看到另外一個女人自殺。栗林希望湯川幫忙解開謎團。
湯川等人從公寓管理人那裏聽說了當時的情況，他說事發當天公寓並未停電。湯川不顧薰的反對，立刻去找靜子，但她堅持說當時睡著了，對此一無所知。離開靜子家之後，湯川從那裏跑到事發公寓，發現只需要不到一分鐘，薰對他的做法感到十分困惑。公寓管理人曾說過峰村當天急得渾身大汗，湯川認為其中肯定有問題。當晚，靜子與峰村見面，他們的確為湯川的調查感到不安。
根據湯川的談話記錄，薰推算出了四分鐘的空白，湯川在峰村公司的貨物上得到了靈感，他把薰叫到實驗室，再現了那個殺人現場。可是不久之後，警方發現峰村溺水而死。其實這一切都是靜子安排的，就連冬美也是她安插在丈夫身邊的。其實靜子並不愛丈夫，她最終也只是為了得到財產而已。
