Fair-play fans will hope for more translations of this master storyteller. The Inugami Curse is a fiendish, intricately plotted classic mystery from a giant of Japanese crime writing, starring the legendary detective Kosuke Kindaichi. The solution is a perfect match for the baffling puzzle. Yokomizo creates a palpable sense of menace throughout with grim foreshadowing of the carnage to come. Soon afterward, someone starts killing Inugami relatives in bizarre ways the first is decapitated, and his head posed in a doll's display. His fears are further validated when Sahei's will is read, setting up a competition between several potential heirs to meet the stringent conditions for receiving part of the lucrative legacy. But before the two men can meet, Wakabayashi himself is murdered by a poisoned cigarette. The lawyer asks the PI to meet him in Nasu, so that the investigator can forestall "events soaked in blood," which Wakabayashi fears will claim the lives of multiple members of the Inugami clan. Kindiachi receives a cryptic letter from attorney Toyoichiro Wakabayashi after Sahei Inugamu, the affluent Silk King of Japan, has died. A multiple murder case confounds brilliant private detective Kosuke Kindaichi in this stellar whodunit set in 1940s Japan from Yokomizo (1902 1981).
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