The Inugami Clan

The Inugami Clan PDF Author: Seishi Yokomizo
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 9781933330310
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and disguised identities to find the murderer. Seishi Yokomizo is Japan's most popular mystery writer. His novels have been made into numerous movies and television dramas in Japan.

The Inugami Clan

The Inugami Clan PDF Author: Seishi Yokomizo
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 9781933330310
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and disguised identities to find the murderer. Seishi Yokomizo is Japan's most popular mystery writer. His novels have been made into numerous movies and television dramas in Japan.

The Inugami Clan

The Inugami Clan PDF Author: Seishi Yokomizo
Publisher: IBC PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9784896844276
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The Inugami Clan

The Inugami Clan PDF Author: 横溝正史
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784925080767
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Dicovering the Inugami clan's secrets of forbidden passions, monstrous cruelty, and disguised identities, private investigator Kosuke Kindaichi unravels the complex web of human relationships and emotions that lie behind the murders.

The Honjin Murders

The Honjin Murders PDF Author: Seishi Yokomizo
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time. 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 sinister masked man has been asking questions around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi household are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music. Death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house. Soon, amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi is on the scene to investigate what will become a legendary murder case, but can this scruffy sleuth solve a seemingly impossible crime?

Death on Gokumon Island

Death on Gokumon Island PDF Author: Seishi Yokomizo
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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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 merely as a messenger – with his last words, the dying man warned that his three step-sisters’ lives would now be in danger. The scruffy detective is determined to get to the bottom of this mysterious prophesy, and to protect the three women if he can. As Kosuke Kindaichi attempts to unravel the island’s secrets, a series of gruesome murders begins. He investigates, but soon finds himself in mortal danger from both the unknown killer and the clannish locals, who resent this outsider meddling in their affairs. Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the fiendish Death on Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo’s classic Japanese mysteries.

Murder Most Modern

Murder Most Modern PDF Author: Sari Kawana
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913730
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions and timely ethical dilemmas. The first book-length study of Japan’s detective fiction, Murder Most Modern considers the important role of detective fiction in defining the country’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Kawana explores the interactions between the popular genre and broader discourses of modernity, nation, and ethics that circulated at this pivotal moment in Japanese history. The author contrasts Japanese works by Edogawa Ranpo, Unno Juza, Oguri Mushitaro, and others with English-language works by Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie to show how Japanese writers of detective fiction used the genre to disseminate their ideas on some of the most startling aspects of modern life: the growth of urbanization, the protection and violation of privacy, the criminalization of abnormal sexuality, the dehumanization of scientific research, and the horrors of total war. Kawana’s comparative approach reveals how Japanese authors of the genre emphasized the vital social issues that captured the attention of thrill-seeking readers-while eluding the eyes of government censors. Sari Kawana is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Yoki Koto Kiku

Yoki Koto Kiku PDF Author: Koge Donbo
Publisher: Broccoli Books Deluxe
ISBN: 9781597410250
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the ancient House of Nekogami, sibling rivalry is a game of life and death. The family patriarch is dead, and his grandson Sukekiyo is the rightful heir. There’s just one problem — Sukekiyo is away at war, his fate unknown. Only one person can inherit the family fortune, and the triplets Yoki, Koto, and Kiku won’t let Sukekiyo’s fianc�e, Tamayo, walk away with everything. With a fortune at stake, it’s kill or be killed as the Nekogami clan goes up against demons, thieves, and each other to protect the family — and the cash! Koge-Donbo’s adorable, nuanced characters and sly wit have made her a favorite of manga fans worldwide. In this rambunctious, sharply written new title, her flair for black humor is on full display, broadening her appeal with graphic novel readers young and old alike.

Japanese Counterculture

Japanese Counterculture PDF Author: Steven C. Ridgely
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816667527
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Explores the significant impact of this countercultural figure of postwar Japan.

The Wrong Letter

The Wrong Letter PDF Author: Walter Sidney Masterman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place PDF Author: Seicho Matsumoto
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 1908524642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."—The New York Times Book Review "A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book’s complex characterizations.Readers will agree that Matsumoto (1909–1992) deserves his reputation as Japan’s Georges Simenon.-Publishers Weekly. While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn’t totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife—who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings—ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife’s death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life... Seicho Matsumoto was Japan's most successful thriller writer. His first detective novel, Points and Lines, sold over a million copies in Japan. Vessel of Sand, published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.