The Meiji Guillotine Murders

The Meiji Guillotine Murders

Crime & Thrillers, Fiction, Fiction & Poetry, Crime General
Paperback Published on: 07/12/2023
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Synopsis

'An audacious puzzle mystery, woven into an exquisitely crafted historical tale. One of the most original works in the history of Japanese mystery writing' Haruo Yuki, author of The Ark

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Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime struggles to keep the peace as old scores are settled and dangerous new ideas flood into the country from the West.

A new police force promises to bring order to this land of feuding samurai warlords, and chief inspectors Kazuki and Kawaji are two of its brightest stars. Together they investigate a spree of baffling murders across the capital, moving from dingy drinking dens to high-class hotels and the heart of the Imperial Palace. Can they solve these seemingly impossible crimes and save the country from slipping into chaos once more?

  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • ISBN: 9781782278887
  • Number of pages: 384
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

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The Meiji Guillotine Murders
Disappointing
First published in Japan in 1979 this was a disappointing read. I've enjoyed other Japanese writers from pushkin press but this was weak. Set in 1868 the w... READ MORE
Book collector
The Meiji Guillotine Murders
Melodramatic interconnected short murder mystery stories
This isn’t a novel, more a series of short stories which gently build on one another until the final story ties them all together. Due to this, most of the... READ MORE
Hikari
The Meiji Guillotine Murders
Intriguing Crimes in Historical Japan
t took me a while to get into this book. The structure was not easy to navigate at first, until I realised it is composed of a series of stories told as tw... READ MORE
Mary Picken
The Meiji Guillotine Murders
More of an historic novel than a mistery one.
It is not a bad book but sadly the mystery part is not good. The novel is consist in several short murders. Until they reach the murder they present you se... READ MORE
Santiago Freire Perez

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