Flask of the Drunken Master

The third sixteenth-century Japanese mystery featuring ninja detective Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo, "a remarkable crime-solving team" (Library Journal).

August 1565: When a rival artisan turns up dead outside Ginjiro's brewery, and all the evidence implicates the brewer, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo must find the killer before the magistrate executes Ginjiro and seizes the brewery, leaving his wife and daughter destitute.

A missing merchant,...