The village of eight graves / Seishi Yokomizo ; translated from the Japanese by Bryan Karetnyk.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1782277455
- 9781782277453
- Yatsuhakamura. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The third title in Japan's most popular murder mystery series -- after The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse -- fiendish classics featuring investigator Kosuke Kindaichi.
Translated into English for the first time.
Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village.
Centuries later a mysterious young man named Tatsuya arrives in town, bringing a spate of deadly poisonings in his wake. The inimitably scruffy and brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi investigates.
"The award-winning classic murder mystery." -- Cover.
First published in Japan as Yatsuhakamura in 1971 by Kadokawa Corporation, Tokyo.
Series information from Goodreads.com.
In English. Translated from the Japanese.
Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurai's, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village. Centuries later a mysterious young man named Tatsuya arrives in town, bringing a spate of deadly poisonings in his wake. The inimitably scruffy and brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi investigates.