Akimitsu Takagi – The Tattoo Murder (retail) (epub)
General:
Name: Akimitsu Takagi – The Tattoo Murder (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.12 MB
Book:
Title: The Tattoo Murder
Author: Akimitsu Takagi
Language: English
Year: 1951
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 9781569471562
Total pages: 324 str.
Description:
An ingenious classic Japanese murder mystery, set in post-war Tokyo and steeped in the illicit subculture of Yakuza tattoos
‘Like voyeurs, we follow Takagi down the charred streets of bombed-out Tokyo to scenes of fastidiously executed decadence’ New York Times
Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder?
Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later she is gone. A dismembered corpse is discovered in the locked bathroom of her home, but her much-coveted body art is nowhere to be found.
Kinue’s horrified lover joins forces with the boy detective Kyosuke Kamizu to try to get to the bottom of the macabre crime, but similar deaths soon follow. Is someone being driven to murder by their lust for tattooed skin, and can they be stopped?
Set in a seedy Tokyo of bomb sites, dive bars and Yakuza gangs, The Tattoo…
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