Rei Mikagami typically only handled cases that presented the most extreme of
mysteries—strange cases bordering on the occult, or cold cases from the past. One time, after
he solved the Zodiac Killings, a cold case from the 1960s in Los Angeles, he appeared for an
interview with a local newspaper through an opaque glass partition under the alias “Ghost in the
Mirror.” That moniker had since been carried over to Japan, where he became referred to as Rei
Mikagami.