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The Tattoo Murder

By: Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boehm
Narrated by: Akira Matsumoto
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Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder?

Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later, she is gone. A dismembered corpse is discovered in the locked bathroom of her home, but her much-coveted body art is nowhere to be found.

Kinue's horrified lover joins forces with the boy detective, Kyosuke Kamizu, to try to get to the bottom of the macabre crime, but similar deaths soon follow. Is someone being driven to murder by their lust for tattooed skin, and can they be stopped?

©1951, 1998 The Heirs of Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boehm (P)2023 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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Critic reviews

"Intricate, fantastic and utterly absorbing. More please... Calculated to outdo John Dickson Carr in both ghoulishness and ingenuity." (Kirkus)

"Like voyeurs, we follow Takagi down the charred streets of bombed-out Tokyo to scenes of fastidiously executed decadence." (The New York Times)

"A delightful, different book, not only because of its unusual setting and premise, but because Takagi is a powerful plotter and constructor of fascinating, complex characters." (The A.V. Club)

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