The Black Swan Mystery

by Ayukawa, Tetsuya | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 07/11/2024 by PUSHKIN PRESS (Pushkin Vertigo) in the United Kingdom as part of The Inspector Onitsura Mysteries series
Paperback | 352 pages
197 x 128 x 25mm | 310g

WINNER OF THE JAPANESE DETECTIVE WRITERS CLUB PRIZE

This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto.

Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which is embroiled in a labour dispute. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently.

Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer.

But as they investigate, the killer strikes again, and again. Will they be able to catch the murderer before even more people are slain?