PublishedPenguin, July 2023 |
ISBN9780241656914 |
FormatSoftcover, 112 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 13cm × 0.7cm |
A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction
A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the only one who can find him. A sequence of macabre and appalling events follows.
