The Queen Bee Mystery
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The Queen Bee Mystery
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Summary
"[Yokomizo's] novels are the literary equivalent of a Rubik's cube." -The Times
The blood of countless men will run before her...
Born and raised on a tiny, uncharted islet named Gekkin Island-the Island of the Moon-Lute-18-year-old Tomoko is preparing to travel to Tokyo to honor her late mother's will when a terrifying letter arrives at her door. The message invokes a mysterious prophecy of blood and hints at horrifying secrets surrounding the deaths of Tomoko's parents.
Famed detective Kosuke Kindaichi is called in to accompany Tomoko on her journey. He's no bodyguard, but he's agreed to take the case and unravel these fearful warnings. But what kind of anonymous client engages a detective, while refusing to answer all his questions?
Then, tragedy strikes. As Tomoko travels from Gekkin Island to Tokyo, bodies start appearing. First, one of Tomoko's lovelorn suitors is murdered in the hotel clock tower. Then, a gardener is found strangled to death. As Kindaichi pieces together these bizarre murders, shocking truths about Tomoko's parents' deaths are revealed, and it becomes clear that solving this mystery will unearth secrets that have been kept hidden for decades...
From master of Japanese crime Seishi Yokomizo, this thrillingly knotted puzzle mystery is the latest in the beloved Kosuke Kindaichi Mysteries series, which includes classic favourites like The Honjin Murders and Murder at the Black Cat Café.
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Reviews
With a reputation in Japan to rival Agatha Christie's, the master of ingenious plotting is finally on the case for anglophone readers (The Guardian)
The Japanese Agatha Christie (Sara Cox, on BBC2's Between the Covers)
This is Golden Age crime at its best, complete with red herrings, blind alleys and twists and turns galore... A testament to the power of the simple murder mystery and its enduring appeal (Spectator)
Atmospheric, exciting and knotty whodunits. The covers alone are enough to get any fan of the genre salivating (Japan Times)
Playful puzzles solved by a brilliant, laconic sleuth (Kirkus Reviews)
The diabolically twisted plotting is top-notch (New York Times)
Readers will delight in the blind turns, red herrings and dubious alibis... Ingenious and compelling (Economist)
A dizzyingly clever rediscovered gem of Japanese Golden Age crime (Waterstones)
Japan has a wonderful history of crime writing, and Yokomizo is one of their finest authors (NB Magazine)
It's steeped in the traditions of locked-room mystery, and is one of the most fiendish examples of the 'impossible murder' I've read (Tim Major, author of 'Jekyll and Hyde')
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