Seishi Yokomizo

Broschiertes Buch

Murder at the Black Cat Cafe

Beschreibung

In post-war Tokyo, a patrolling policeman makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hole with a dead black cat by her side. The woman's face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the Café's black cat seems alive! Legendary sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates a past shrouded in secrecy and yet, nothing at the Cafe is as it seems.

Autor

Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. Born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Honjin Murders, The Inugami Curse, The Village of Eight Graves, Death on Gokumon Island, The Devil's Flute Murders and The Little Sparrow Murders are also available from Pushkin Vertigo. Bryan Karetnyk is a translator of Japanese and Russian literature. His recent translations for Pushkin Press include Seishi Yokomizo's The Village of Eight Graves, Futaro Yamada's The Meiji Guillotine Murders, Taku Ashibe's Murder in the House of Omari and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Murder in the Age of Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 124mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 208g
• ISBN-13: 9781805335511
• ISBN-10: 1805335510
• Artikelnr.: 72623033