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Japanese crime: The Tattoo Murder

by Akimitsu Takagi


  • Pushkin (Faber)
The classic Japanese locked-room mystery 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-admired 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, ...

ISBN 9781782278283 | EN | PB
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Publisher Pushkin (Faber)
ISBN 9781782278283
Publication date October 2022
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 196 x 129 mm
Pages 384
Language(s) English ed.
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The classic Japanese locked-room mystery

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-admired 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 Murder is one of Japan’s most ingenious and legendary whodunits.

Japanese crime: The Tattoo Murder

Japanese crime: The Tattoo Murder

€15.50