Author: Shizuko Natsuki
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312552879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
A visiting American and a clever police detective attempt to unravel an intricate web of intrigue, deceit, and subterfuge to uncover the truth concerning a family murder
Murder at Mt. Fuji
Author: Shizuko Natsuki
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312552879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
A visiting American and a clever police detective attempt to unravel an intricate web of intrigue, deceit, and subterfuge to uncover the truth concerning a family murder
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312552879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
A visiting American and a clever police detective attempt to unravel an intricate web of intrigue, deceit, and subterfuge to uncover the truth concerning a family murder
Murder at Mount Fuji
Author: Shizuko Natsuki
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1804955167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When American student Jane Prescott is invited to spend the holidays with her classmate Chiyo, she jumps at the chance to see in the new year at a luxurious mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji. Chiyo belongs to one of Japan's wealthiest families, the heiress to a pharmaceutical empire headed up by Yohei 'Grandpa' Wada. With the whole Wada family gathered and snow falling outside, the festivities are in full swing. That is, until Chiyo bursts into the room - covered in blood, holding a knife, and screaming that she has stabbed her grandfather to death. Stunned, the family closes ranks to protect one of its own - but Jane alone has more questions than answers. Could her sweet, timid friend really be capable of such violence? Did any other member of the Wada clan stand to gain everything with the patriarch’s death? And if so, could the real murderer still be in their midst? Packed full of atmosphere and nostalgia, and with a dark, gritty mystery at its heart, MURDER AT MOUNT FUJI is the perfect rediscovered classic novel for fans of Japanese translated fiction and cosy crime.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1804955167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When American student Jane Prescott is invited to spend the holidays with her classmate Chiyo, she jumps at the chance to see in the new year at a luxurious mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji. Chiyo belongs to one of Japan's wealthiest families, the heiress to a pharmaceutical empire headed up by Yohei 'Grandpa' Wada. With the whole Wada family gathered and snow falling outside, the festivities are in full swing. That is, until Chiyo bursts into the room - covered in blood, holding a knife, and screaming that she has stabbed her grandfather to death. Stunned, the family closes ranks to protect one of its own - but Jane alone has more questions than answers. Could her sweet, timid friend really be capable of such violence? Did any other member of the Wada clan stand to gain everything with the patriarch’s death? And if so, could the real murderer still be in their midst? Packed full of atmosphere and nostalgia, and with a dark, gritty mystery at its heart, MURDER AT MOUNT FUJI is the perfect rediscovered classic novel for fans of Japanese translated fiction and cosy crime.
Blue Light Yokohama
Author: Nicolas Obregon
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250110483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
-Inspired by a real-life unsolved murder---Front jacket flap.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250110483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
-Inspired by a real-life unsolved murder---Front jacket flap.
The Third Lady
Author: Shizuko Natsuki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780345337658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In a chance encounter, Kohei Daigo and Fumiko Samejima admit there are persons they wish were dead, but when the individual Kohei has mentioned is murdered, he fears Fumiko is the killer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780345337658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In a chance encounter, Kohei Daigo and Fumiko Samejima admit there are persons they wish were dead, but when the individual Kohei has mentioned is murdered, he fears Fumiko is the killer
Mount Fuji
Author: H. Byron Earhart
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611171113
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day. Included in the book is a link to his twenty-eight minute streaming video documentary of Fuji pilgrimage and practice, Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan. Beginning with early reflections on the beauty and power associated with the mountain in medieval Japanese literature, Earhart examines how these qualities fostered spiritual practices such as Shugendo, which established rituals and a temple complex at the mountain as a portal to an ascetic otherworld. As a focus of worship, the mountain became a source of spiritual insight, rebirth, and prophecy through the practitioners Kakugyo and Jikigyo, whose teachings led to social movements such as Fujido (the way of Fuji) and to a variety of pilgrimage confraternities making images and replicas of the mountain for use in local rituals. Earhart shows how the seventeenth-century commodification of Mount Fuji inspired powerful interpretive renderings of the "peerless" mountain of Japan, such as those of the nineteenth-century print masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, which were largely responsible for creating the international reputation of Mount Fuji. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, images of Fuji served as an expression of a unique and superior Japanese culture. With its distinctive shape firmly embedded in Japanese culture but its ethical, ritual, and spiritual associations made malleable over time, Mount Fuji came to symbolize ultranationalistic ambitions in the 1930s and early 1940s, peacetime democracy as early as 1946, and a host of artistic, naturalistic, and commercial causes, even the exotic and erotic, in the decades since.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611171113
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day. Included in the book is a link to his twenty-eight minute streaming video documentary of Fuji pilgrimage and practice, Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan. Beginning with early reflections on the beauty and power associated with the mountain in medieval Japanese literature, Earhart examines how these qualities fostered spiritual practices such as Shugendo, which established rituals and a temple complex at the mountain as a portal to an ascetic otherworld. As a focus of worship, the mountain became a source of spiritual insight, rebirth, and prophecy through the practitioners Kakugyo and Jikigyo, whose teachings led to social movements such as Fujido (the way of Fuji) and to a variety of pilgrimage confraternities making images and replicas of the mountain for use in local rituals. Earhart shows how the seventeenth-century commodification of Mount Fuji inspired powerful interpretive renderings of the "peerless" mountain of Japan, such as those of the nineteenth-century print masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, which were largely responsible for creating the international reputation of Mount Fuji. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, images of Fuji served as an expression of a unique and superior Japanese culture. With its distinctive shape firmly embedded in Japanese culture but its ethical, ritual, and spiritual associations made malleable over time, Mount Fuji came to symbolize ultranationalistic ambitions in the 1930s and early 1940s, peacetime democracy as early as 1946, and a host of artistic, naturalistic, and commercial causes, even the exotic and erotic, in the decades since.
Murder.com
Author: Christopher Berry-Dee
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1782195653
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Evil roams the internet just as it does even the most quiet of streets in the real world. World-renowned criminologist (and the U.K.'s number 1 true crime writer) Christopher Berry-Dee takes an unflinching look into the darkest recesses of the world wide web and what he has unearthed will make you switch off your computer - for good. From cannibals ordering a human meal by email to mail-order brides whose quest for better lives end in grisly murder, this is the only guide you need to avoid the perils of the online world. With years of experience in understanding the criminal mind, Berry-Dee rigorously analyses how the ease of access to the most depraved of materials on the net has fed the imagination of the world's sickest fiends. From the bondage festishist who killed an innocent acquaintance, to the girl who learned how to commit suicide from the web, these all-true stories will shock you to your core.
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1782195653
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Evil roams the internet just as it does even the most quiet of streets in the real world. World-renowned criminologist (and the U.K.'s number 1 true crime writer) Christopher Berry-Dee takes an unflinching look into the darkest recesses of the world wide web and what he has unearthed will make you switch off your computer - for good. From cannibals ordering a human meal by email to mail-order brides whose quest for better lives end in grisly murder, this is the only guide you need to avoid the perils of the online world. With years of experience in understanding the criminal mind, Berry-Dee rigorously analyses how the ease of access to the most depraved of materials on the net has fed the imagination of the world's sickest fiends. From the bondage festishist who killed an innocent acquaintance, to the girl who learned how to commit suicide from the web, these all-true stories will shock you to your core.
Gleams From Japan (Routledge Revivals)
Author: S. Katsumata
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136654224
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
First published in 1937 this is a collection of articles written by the author under the pseudonym 'Waseda Eisaku' for the Japan Tourist Bureau's magazine over twenty five years. Intended to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of cultivated tourists from abroad by giving the insider's view of all things Japanese, it was published as a book just before the outbreak of World War II. Writing in the first person, Katsumata becomes both guide and confidante, writing about his own travel experiences in Japan and about Japanese customs and practices that interest him, such as traditional incense ceremonies, or fishing with rod and creel. This personal approach results in an unusual selection of topics and itineraries including tray landscapes, old Japanese clocks, hot springs, Japanese humour, sumo wrestling, pines in Japanese scenery, the Japanese sun flag and Buddhist temple bells. The author not only describes, but draws the reader into his own experiences - his joy on buying an antiquarian book he cannot really afford, the monotony he feels when travelling too long through snowy landscapes, the delight he takes in telling you that the best bait for carp fishing is sweet potato. Katsumata's unconventional choice of subjects and his informal and individualistic writing style make this a refreshingly different guide to Japan, and a valuable record of the period in which it was written.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136654224
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
First published in 1937 this is a collection of articles written by the author under the pseudonym 'Waseda Eisaku' for the Japan Tourist Bureau's magazine over twenty five years. Intended to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of cultivated tourists from abroad by giving the insider's view of all things Japanese, it was published as a book just before the outbreak of World War II. Writing in the first person, Katsumata becomes both guide and confidante, writing about his own travel experiences in Japan and about Japanese customs and practices that interest him, such as traditional incense ceremonies, or fishing with rod and creel. This personal approach results in an unusual selection of topics and itineraries including tray landscapes, old Japanese clocks, hot springs, Japanese humour, sumo wrestling, pines in Japanese scenery, the Japanese sun flag and Buddhist temple bells. The author not only describes, but draws the reader into his own experiences - his joy on buying an antiquarian book he cannot really afford, the monotony he feels when travelling too long through snowy landscapes, the delight he takes in telling you that the best bait for carp fishing is sweet potato. Katsumata's unconventional choice of subjects and his informal and individualistic writing style make this a refreshingly different guide to Japan, and a valuable record of the period in which it was written.
The Transatlantic Conspiracy
Author: G. D. Falksen
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954183
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
At the dawn of a reimagined 20th century, one girl must become the reluctant symbol of a new world. The year is 1908. Seventeen-year-old Rosalind Wallace’s blissful stay in England with her best friend, Cecily de Vere, ends abruptly when her father books Rosalind on the maiden voyage of his fabulous Transatlantic Express, the world’s first railroad to travel under the sea. Rosalind is furious. But lucky for her, Cecily and her handsome older brother, Charles, volunteer to accompany her home. But when Charles disappears and Cecily and her housemaid, Doris, are found stabbed to death in their state room, Rosalind finds herself trapped undersea, in a deadly fight to clear herself of her friend’s murder and to thwart a sinister enemy.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954183
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
At the dawn of a reimagined 20th century, one girl must become the reluctant symbol of a new world. The year is 1908. Seventeen-year-old Rosalind Wallace’s blissful stay in England with her best friend, Cecily de Vere, ends abruptly when her father books Rosalind on the maiden voyage of his fabulous Transatlantic Express, the world’s first railroad to travel under the sea. Rosalind is furious. But lucky for her, Cecily and her handsome older brother, Charles, volunteer to accompany her home. But when Charles disappears and Cecily and her housemaid, Doris, are found stabbed to death in their state room, Rosalind finds herself trapped undersea, in a deadly fight to clear herself of her friend’s murder and to thwart a sinister enemy.
Extreme Killing
Author: James Alan Fox
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1483355160
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Filled with contemporary and classic case studies, this fascinating overview of both serial and mass murder illustrates the many violent expressions of power, revenge, terror, greed, and loyalty. Throughout the book, renowned experts James Alan Fox and Jack Levin examine the theories of criminal behavior and apply them to a multitude of mass and serial murderers from around the world, such as Adam Lanza (Newtown, CT), James Holmes (Aurora, CO cinema), Anders Breivik (Oslo, Norway), Charles Manson (“Helter Skelter”), and Dennis Rader (BTK). This fully updated Third Edition of Extreme Killing helps readers understand the commonalities and variations among multiple murders, addresses the characteristics of both killers and their victims, and, in the concluding chapter, discusses the special concerns of multiple murder victims and their survivors.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1483355160
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Filled with contemporary and classic case studies, this fascinating overview of both serial and mass murder illustrates the many violent expressions of power, revenge, terror, greed, and loyalty. Throughout the book, renowned experts James Alan Fox and Jack Levin examine the theories of criminal behavior and apply them to a multitude of mass and serial murderers from around the world, such as Adam Lanza (Newtown, CT), James Holmes (Aurora, CO cinema), Anders Breivik (Oslo, Norway), Charles Manson (“Helter Skelter”), and Dennis Rader (BTK). This fully updated Third Edition of Extreme Killing helps readers understand the commonalities and variations among multiple murders, addresses the characteristics of both killers and their victims, and, in the concluding chapter, discusses the special concerns of multiple murder victims and their survivors.
Suicide Forest
Author: Jeremy Bates
Publisher: Ghillinnein Books
ISBN: 9780993764622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Just outside of Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a vast forest and one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in Japan...and also the most infamous spot to commit suicide in the world. Legend has it that the spirits of those many suicides are still roaming, haunting deep in the ancient woods. When bad weather prevents a group of friends from climbing neighboring Mt. Fuji, they decide to spend the night camping in Aokigahara. But they get more than they bargained for when one of them is found hanged in the morning-and they realize there might be some truth to the legends after all.
Publisher: Ghillinnein Books
ISBN: 9780993764622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Just outside of Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a vast forest and one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in Japan...and also the most infamous spot to commit suicide in the world. Legend has it that the spirits of those many suicides are still roaming, haunting deep in the ancient woods. When bad weather prevents a group of friends from climbing neighboring Mt. Fuji, they decide to spend the night camping in Aokigahara. But they get more than they bargained for when one of them is found hanged in the morning-and they realize there might be some truth to the legends after all.