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- ISBN 9781805335573
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2026
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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THE CLASSIC JAPANESE MYSTERY - from the author of The Honjin Murders
'The master of ingenious plotting' Guardian
Fear looms over the luxurious Furugami estate. The beautiful, young Yachiyo Furugami, plagued by episodes of sleepwalking, receives a series of cryptic letters culminating in an ominous warning: 'Walk not at night'.
Then a body is discovered, decapitated with a centuries-old samurai sword. The police are baffled, so the famous sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi is called upon to solve the mystery, but before he can do so, the killer strikes again. Can Kindaichi get to the truth before the Furugami family is destroyed by its own secrets?
Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was 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, The Devil's Flute Murders, The Little Sparrow Murders, Death on Gokumon Island and Murder at the Black Cat Cafe are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
Jesse Kirkwood is a literary translator working from Japanese into English. The recipient of the 2020 Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize, his translations include The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto and The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi (available from Pushkin Vertigo).
