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By Seishi Yokomizo, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)

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This locked-room mystery from the father of Japanese classic crime is finally available in English for the first time. The author of Murder at the Black Cat Café delivers another puzzle of a story in The Honjin Murders.

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.

Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi househo...