The Lady Killer

✍ Scribed by Grove, Simon;Togawa, Masako

• Book ID: 100588466
• Publisher: Steerforth Press; Pushkin Vertigo
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 129 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Japan,Japan.
• ISBN: 1782274103

✦ Synopsis

A classic mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers The Lady Killer leads a double life in the shadow world of Tokyo's singles bars and nightclubs. By day a devoted husband and hard worker, by night he cruises nightclubs cafes and cinemas in search of lonely single women to seduce. But now the hunter is being hunted, and in his wake lies a trail of gruesome murders. Who is the culprit' The answer lies tangled in a web of clues, and to find it he must accept that nothing is what it seems. This is a moody, brilliantly plotted mystery from the writer dubbed 'the P.D. James of Japan'.;Intro; TITLE PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; PART 1: THE HUNTER; The First Victim (November 5); The Second Victim (December 19); The Third Victim (January 15); Interval; PART 2: COLLECTING THE EVIDENCE; The Lawyers; The Blood Bank; The Black Stain; Insertion-A Monologue; The Black Stain-Continued; EPILOGUE; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ABOUT THE PUBLISHER; COPYRIGHT

✦ Subjects

Japan