Seishi Yokomizo
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2023
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“Yokomizo at his absolute best... From the ominous opening through the brilliant final reveal, [he] ably blends suspense and fair-play detection... A classic of the genre.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
An ingenious classic locked-room murder mystery about the feuding family of a composer that’s perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Anthony Horowitz
This standalone novel features the scruffy...
An ingenious classic locked-room murder mystery about the feuding family of a composer that’s perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Anthony Horowitz
This standalone novel features the scruffy...
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2022
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A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers
Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries.
Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news—the son of one of the island's most important...
Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries.
Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news—the son of one of the island's most important...
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Endlich auch auf Deutsch: "Japans Antwort auf Agatha Christie" The Guardian
Es ist der Winter 1937, und der Ort Okamura befindet sich in heller Aufruhr: schon bald wird die renommierte Ichiyanagi-Famile ihren Sohn vermählen. Aber unter den Tratsch über das anstehende Fest mischt sich ein besorgniserregendes Gerücht: ein maskierter Mann streift durch das Städtchen und fragt die Leute zu den Ichiyanagis aus. In der Hochzeitsnacht dann erwacht...
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Der nächste Fall der erfolgreichen klassischen Krimiserie aus Japan - "Japans Antwort auf Agatha Christie." The Guardian
Der Privatermittler Kosuke Kindaichi reist auf die abgelegene Insel Gokumon, um einer der wichtigsten Familien dort eine tragische Nachricht zu überbringen: Einer ihrer Söhne ist auf einem Truppentransportschiff, das ihn nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zurück in die Heimat bringen sollte, gestorben. Doch Kindaichi ist nicht nur...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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349 pages ; 20 cm
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Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village. Centuries later a mysterious young man named Tatsuya arrives in town, bringing a spate of deadly poisonings in his wake. The inimitably scruffy and brilliant...
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"In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a daughter of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiniyagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie...
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2020.
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317 pages ; 20 cm
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"In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and hidden identities to find the murderer, and lift the curse wreaking its bloody revenge on the Inugamis."--Provided by publisher.
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[2022]
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8 audio discs (9 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and hidden identities to find the murderer, and lift the curse wreaking its bloody revenge on the Inugamis.