FROM ONE OF JAPAN’S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS–THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS Nothing at The Black Cat Caf? is as it seems. . .
In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing The Black Cat Caf? makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hastily dug hole, with a dead black cat by her side. The woman’s face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the caf?’s black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the caf?’s garden? As the legendary scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates, he realizes the caf?’s enigmatic madam, Oshima, has a past shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly is her relationship with the owner, Itoshima? Murder at the Black Cat Caf? is the latest instalment in the Kosuke Kindaichi mysteries–the classic series that made Seishi Yokomizo Japan’s greatest and best-loved crime writer of all time. This edition also includes a bonus story, ‘The Well Wheel Creaks’.Author: Seishi Yokomizo
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
Published: 09/09/2025
Series: Detective Kindaichi Mysteries
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781805335511
Language: English
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