Fair-play fans will hope for more translations of this master storyteller. 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. The book has been translated into English by Yumiko Yamazaki and has since gained a reputation as one of the finest Japanese detective novels of all time.The plot of The Inugami Curse centers around a wealthy and eccentric Japanese. But before the two men can meet, Wakabayashi himself is murdered by a poisoned cigarette. The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo is a classic mystery novel originally published in Japanese in 1951. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins.
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. A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japans greatest crime writers, featuring the countrys best-loved detective In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. 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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