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A Times No.1 and Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller A classic Japanese mystery, from the author of The Honjin Murders 'The Japanese Agatha Christie' Sara Cox, Between the Covers Tokyo, 1947. The Pink Labyrinth is one of the bomb-scarred city's most sh...

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'The Japanese Agatha Christie' Sarah Cox, on BBC2's Between the Covers 'The master of ingenious plotting' Guardian 'Dazzling' New York Times ______ FROM THE FATHER OF JAPANESE CRIME _____ In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with...

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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...

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An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan's master of crime. Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has ...

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Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news - the son of one of the island's most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come me...

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'With a reputation in Japan to rival Agatha Christie's, the master of ingenious plotting is finally on the case for anglophone readers' Guardian The third title in Japan's most popular murder mystery series -- following The Honjin Murders and The ...

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'The Japanese Agatha Christie' Sarah Cox, on BBC2's Between the Covers 'The master of ingenious plotting' Guardian 'Dazzling' New York Times ______ FROM THE FATHER OF JAPANESE CRIME _____ In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with...

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Yachiyo Furugami, plagued by episodes of sleepwalking, receives a series of cryptic letters culminating in an ominous warning: 'Walk not at night'. Then a body is discovered on the grand Furugami estate, decapitated with a centuries-old samurai sw...

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In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a siniste...

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An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi arrived than a new series of murders strikes the vil...

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