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Onizuka Kumako è una donna avvenente, dalla figura prosperosa e dai modi spregiudicati. Entraîneuse nei bar di Tokyo, sa come sedurre i clienti, e per farsi rispettare non esita a usare le maniere forti - e a ricorrere, se necessario, alle sue amicizie malavitose. Peccato che Shirakawa Fukutaro, ricco vedovo alla disperata ricerca di compagnia, sia all'oscuro del suo passato e decida di sposarla, portandola a vivere nella regio...

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A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo ExpressTokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is found on the tracks. With only two leads - a distinctive accent and a single word, 'kameda' - senior inspector Imanishi Eitaro is called in to solve the puzzle. Setting aside his beloved bonsai and haikus, he must cross Japan in search of answers, from Osaka to Akita, accompanie...

A master crime writer...Seichō Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."--The New York Times. A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation.Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by an intermediary. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound c...

Tokyo Express is an irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'A classic of postwar Japanese crime fiction' Financial Times'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to inve...

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, an old and shabby detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they will begin to pick at the knot o...

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Tokyo, 12 maggio 1961. Nelle prime ore del mattino, sui binari della stazione di Kamata viene trovato il cadavere sfigurato di un uomo. Impossibile identificarne i tratti, non c'è alcun nome, solo due labili indizi che sembrano non portare da nessuna parte: la voce di un uomo anziano, che i testimoni hanno sentito parlare con un accento caratteristico, e una parola, kameda. Per seguirne le tracce l'ispettore Eitarô Imanishi è costretto a una l...

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all'alba. Entrambi sono giovani e belli. Il colorito acceso delle guance rivela che hanno assunto del cianuro. Un suicidio d'amore, non ci sono dubbi. La polizia di Fukuoka sembra quasi delusa: niente indagini, niente colpevole. Ma, almeno agli occhi di Torigai Jutaro, vecchio investigatore dall'aria indolente e dagli abiti logori, e del suo giovane ...

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While on a business trip, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife has died. She had a heart condition so it doesn't come as a shock, however, the circumstances surrounding it are unexpected. While uncovering the truth, Tsuneo kills someone, and finds himself hunted.

In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim's identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word "kameda." Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate-and runs up against a blank wall. Months pas...