Detective Kosuke Kindaichi Series by Seishi Yokomizo, Louise Heal Kawai

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  • The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #1)
    #1

    The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #1)

    Seishi Yokomizo, Louise Heal Kawai

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1946

    One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time.In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions around the village... more

  • Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #2)
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    Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #2)

    Seishi Yokomizo

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1948

    Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger – with his last words, the dying man warned that his three step-sisters’ lives would now be in danger. The scruffy detective is determined to get to the bottom of this mysterious prophesy, and to protect the three women if he can... more

  • The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #4)
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    The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #4)

    Seishi Yokomizo

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1949

    The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse — fiendish classics featuring investigator Kosuke Kindaichi.Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village... more

  • The Inugami Clan (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #6)
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    The Inugami Clan (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #6)

    Seishi Yokomizo

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1972

    What's the reason behind this sequence of grotesque and bloody murders -- and who is the ghastly murderer? These are the riddles that ace private eye Kosuke Kindaichi has to solve.In mid-1940s Japan Sahei Inugami, wealthy head of the Inugami Group and 'Silk King of Japan', dies in his lakeside villa at the venerable age of 81. In his youth, Sahei was rescued from poverty and an early death by a Shinto priest... more

  • The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #8)
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    The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi #8)

    Seishi Yokomizo

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1951

    An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime.Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning.The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead.When the family gather for a divination to conjure the spirit of their departed patriarch, death visits the house once more, and the brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi is called in to investigate... more

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