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Honeymoon to nowhere


A State Prosecutor Kirishima mystery. Etsuko loves the shy, young lecturer who clumsily (albeit charmingly) courts her. Her family does not. His past is suspect – unthinkable for a suitor in Japan. They marry anyway. On their wedding night he is called away by an urgent phone call. By morning …


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The informer


A Japanese novel on an industrial spy assigned to obtain a formula from a company. On the verge of success, having worked himself into the owner’s good graces and the arms of his wife, the owner is murdered and the spy’s problems begin.


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The tattoo murder case


A Japanese mystery set in 1947 Tokyo featuring Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who has an affair with a married woman with a tattooed torso. One day he finds her murdered, the torso missing, and sets out to find the killer. A look at the art of tattooing in Japan …


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