The Tattoo Murder (eBook)

Akimitsu Takagi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
384 Seiten
Pushkin Vertigo (Verlag)
978-1-78227-829-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder? Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later she is gone. A dismembered corpse is discovered in the locked bathroom of her home, but her much-coveted body art is nowhere to be found. Kinue's horrified lover joins forces with the boy detective Kyosuke Kamizu to try to get to the bottom of the macabre crime, but similar deaths soon follow. Is someone being driven to murder by their lust for tattooed skin, and can they be stopped?Set in a seedy Tokyo of bomb sites, dive bars and Yakuza gangs, The Tattoo Murder is one of Japan's most ingenious and legendary whodunits.

Autor

AKIMITSU TAKAGI was born in Japan in 1920 and went on to work as an aeronautical engineer until the end of the Second World War. He later decided to become a mystery writer on the recommendation of a fortune teller. He went on to become one of the country's most popular crime authors, winning the prestigious Mystery Writers Club Award. The Tattoo Murder was Takagi's debut and is considered one of the great classic Japanese whodunits. Takagi had a lifelong fascination with the underground world of traditional Japanese tattoos and took many fascinating photos of tattooists and their subjects which are available for features. The Tattoo Murder was first published in 1948 but has never been published in the UK until now.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2022
• Übersetzer: Deborah Boehm
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Schlagworte: 1930s Japanese crime novel • 1930s Japan fiction • amateur detective fiction • amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi • amateur sleuth fiction • amateur sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi • classic crime fiction • Classic Japanese Mystery • Decagon House Murders • detective Kosuke Kindaichi series • fiction in translation • Golden Age Crime • Historical crime fiction • historical crime novel Japan • historical detective fiction Japan • historical detective novel • historical mystery fiction • Honjin Murders • honkaku • Japanese Classic Crime • Japanese crime thriller • Japanese culture mystery novel • Japanese detective Kosuke Kindaichi • Japanese detective novel • Japanese fiction in translation • Japanese historical crime novel • Japanese historical detective fiction • japanese literature • japanese tattoos • Japanese village murder mystery • Kosuke Kindaichi detective series • Kosuke Kindaichi mystery series • Kosuke Kindaichi series novel • locked room murder mystery • locked room mystery • murder investigation novel • murder mystery novel • murder mystery with samurai sword • puzzle mystery • shin-honkaku mystery • Shisei Satsujin Jiken • Tattoo Murder Case • Tokyo Zodiac Murders • village murder mystery • Writers like Agatha christie • yakuza fiction • Yakuza Tattoos
• ISBN-10: 1-78227-829-X / 178227829X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-829-0 / 9781782278290