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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 where it is banned.
| Japanese title: | Shisei satsujin jiken |
| Subjects: | Akimitsu Takagi, Translations into English Detective and mystery stories Tattooing, Fiction |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Shisei satsujin jiken. |
| Description: | 324 p. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781569471081 9781569471562 |
| OCLC Number: | 37976340 |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Publisher: | Soho Press, Inc., 1998, 2002 |
| Publication Place: | New York |
| Japanese Publication Date: | 1948 |
| English Publication Date: | 1998 |
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