The Black Swan Mystery
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Inspector Onitsura Mysteries
ISBN-10
1805335235
ISBN-13
9781805335238
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Imprint
Pushkin Vertigo
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 7th, 2024
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
310 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.80 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Crime & mysteryFiction in translation
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WINNER OF THE JAPANESE DETECTIVE WRITERS CLUB PRIZE_____This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto. _____Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which is embroiled in a labour dispute. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently. Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer. But as they investigate, the killer strikes again, and again. Will they be able to catch the murderer before even more people are slain?
THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japanfor fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto!
Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest alibi deconstruction mysteries ever written
Early one morning, the owner of a local mill is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station. Suspicion initially falls on the workers'' union, with whom the man had been embroiled in a labour dispute, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently.
Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer.
But as they investigate, the killer strikes again, and again. Will they be able to catch the murderer before even more people are slain?
Fans of Agatha Christies 4.50 from Paddington and Seicho Matsumotos Tokyo Express will delight in the devious twists and turns of The Black Swan Mystery, as well as in the characterisation and portrait of 1960s Japan.
The author, Tetsuya Ayukawa, is considered to be the master of alibi deconstruction mysteriesa talent that is on full display in this brilliant classic railway murder mystery, which won the prestigious Japanese Detective Writers Club Prize.
Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest alibi deconstruction mysteries ever written
Early one morning, the owner of a local mill is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station. Suspicion initially falls on the workers'' union, with whom the man had been embroiled in a labour dispute, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently.
Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer.
But as they investigate, the killer strikes again, and again. Will they be able to catch the murderer before even more people are slain?
Fans of Agatha Christies 4.50 from Paddington and Seicho Matsumotos Tokyo Express will delight in the devious twists and turns of The Black Swan Mystery, as well as in the characterisation and portrait of 1960s Japan.
The author, Tetsuya Ayukawa, is considered to be the master of alibi deconstruction mysteriesa talent that is on full display in this brilliant classic railway murder mystery, which won the prestigious Japanese Detective Writers Club Prize.
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