食母：墨菲定律

 她是一位国标舞者，却在重大赛事的紧要关头遭遇危机，幸好有位街头舞者挺身而出，不顾自身过往的伤痛，担任她的出赛舞伴。

　　《蜘蛛男》是“江户川乱步作品集”第七卷。故事开头，怪绅士稻桓租下了一间事务所，把它重新装修成美术艺品店。第二天开业时聘用了一名十八岁的美少女，但当天晚上就奸杀了这名少女。接下来的几天内报纸社会版头条陆续刊登了“碎尸案”、“美人鱼案”。民间犯罪学者畔柳博士接手此案，在与蓝胡子稻桓正面交锋的过程中屡屡败下阵来，直到环游归来的明智加入侦破阵营……，故事从读者预测不到的角度展开，是一部名探与杀人狂的斗智故事。

在战火纷飞的中世纪王国中，手握利剑的斯嘉丽公主为替父报仇毅然踏上征途，却以失败收场。当她再次醒来时，发现自己身处神秘的“死者之国”。在那里，她邂逅了一位来自现代的理想主义青年；他的善意与慈悲，动摇了她心中根深蒂固的仇恨。当杀父仇敌再度现身，斯嘉丽必须做出抉择：是继续执念于复仇，还是寻找到仇恨之外的人生意义。

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...