Murder at the Black Cat Caf [Paperback]

FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—the author of THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems. . .

A faceless corpse is discovered near a notorious Tokyo brothel. Scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi plunges into the seedy backstreets to investigate.

In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal.

In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing The Black Cat Café makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hastily dug hole, with a dead black cat by her side. The woman’s face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the café’s black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the café’s garden?

As the legendary scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates, he realizes the café’s enigmatic madam, Oshima, has a past shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly is her relationship with the owner, Itoshima?

Murder at the Black Cat Café is the latest instalment in the Kosuke Kindaichi mysteries—the classic series that made Seishi Yokomizo Japan’s greatest and best-loved crime writer of all time. This edition also includes a bonus story, ‘The Well Wheel Creaks’. Fans of Golden Age mysteries will enjoy trying to solve Kindaichi’s whodunit alongside the rumpled detective, as well as exploring the details of the novel’s postwar Japan setting.
—Library Journal

Playful puzzles solved by a brilliant, laconic sleuth.
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