Tokyo Zodiac
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"The God of Riddle"—that's what Shimada Soji is known as in Japan. He created the honkaku detective story, a new genre so popular in the Land of the Rising Sun. It offers the reader a fair intellectual challenge: solving the case before the protagonist does.
Soji was the first to combine European classics with Japanese exoticism, rationalism with mysticism. His great detective is not just a man of keen intellect and brilliant analytical skills, like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Nero Wolfe, but also an astrologer and fortune teller.
Soji's novel is a must-read for every self-respecting Japanophile—it's literally saturated with fascinating information about the history, culture, and geography of pre-war Japan.
Japan, 1936. An eccentric artist, who lived with his six daughters, stepdaughters, and nieces, was found dead in a room locked from the inside. His diaries, devoted to alchemy and astrology, contained a detailed plan to kill each of them. To take the lives of several in order to give life to one, but perfect—one possessing the strongest qualities of all the zodiac signs. And
soon after, the plan was executed: body parts of these women were found hidden throughout Japan.
By 1979, the Tokyo Zodiac Murders had captivated the nation for decades but remained unsolved. Fortune teller, astrologer, and master detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and his illustrator friend
must solve the mystery of this impossible crime within one week. You have all the necessary clues, but can you find the answer before they do?
Soji was the first to combine European classics with Japanese exoticism, rationalism with mysticism. His great detective is not just a man of keen intellect and brilliant analytical skills, like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Nero Wolfe, but also an astrologer and fortune teller.
Soji's novel is a must-read for every self-respecting Japanophile—it's literally saturated with fascinating information about the history, culture, and geography of pre-war Japan.
Japan, 1936. An eccentric artist, who lived with his six daughters, stepdaughters, and nieces, was found dead in a room locked from the inside. His diaries, devoted to alchemy and astrology, contained a detailed plan to kill each of them. To take the lives of several in order to give life to one, but perfect—one possessing the strongest qualities of all the zodiac signs. And
soon after, the plan was executed: body parts of these women were found hidden throughout Japan.
By 1979, the Tokyo Zodiac Murders had captivated the nation for decades but remained unsolved. Fortune teller, astrologer, and master detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and his illustrator friend
must solve the mystery of this impossible crime within one week. You have all the necessary clues, but can you find the answer before they do?
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