The Master Key

✍ Scribed by Masako Togawa

• Book ID: 100260041
• Publisher: Steerforth Press
• Year: 2017;2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 140 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1782273867

✦ Synopsis

The prizewinning debut mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers.
The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old - and in some cases, evil.
Their residence conceals a secret, a secret connecting the unsolved kidnapping in 1951 of four-year-old George Kraft to the clandestine burial of a child's body in the basement bath-house. So, when news comes that the building must be moved to make way for a road-building project, more than one tenant waits with apprehension for the grisly revelation that will follow. Then the master key is lost, stolen and re-stolen, and suddenly no-one feels safe.
Fiendish intrigue, double identity and an ingenious plot make this a thriller worthy of comparison with the work of P.D. James.