Tokyo Zodiac
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The great Soji Shimada literally invented an entire sub-genre of 'logic mystery'
- The Guardian
"Intricately crafted and breathtakingly exotic."
- Japan Times
"One of the most original solutions to a mystery I've ever come across."
- Anthony Horowitz
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 the perfect one - the possessor of the strongest qualities of all the signs of the zodiac. And soon after, the plan came to fruition: body parts of these women are found hidden throughout Japan.
By 1979, the Tokyo Zodiac Murders had been stirring the nation for decades, but had never been solved. Fortune teller, astrologer, and great detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and his illustrator friend must solve the mystery of this impossible crime in one week. You have all the clues you need, but can you find the clue before they do?
- The Guardian
"Intricately crafted and breathtakingly exotic."
- Japan Times
"One of the most original solutions to a mystery I've ever come across."
- Anthony Horowitz
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 the perfect one - the possessor of the strongest qualities of all the signs of the zodiac. And soon after, the plan came to fruition: body parts of these women are found hidden throughout Japan.
By 1979, the Tokyo Zodiac Murders had been stirring the nation for decades, but had never been solved. Fortune teller, astrologer, and great detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and his illustrator friend must solve the mystery of this impossible crime in one week. You have all the clues you need, but can you find the clue before they do?
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