The black swan mystery / Tetsuya Ayukawa ; translated from the Japanese by Bryan Karetnyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayukawa, Tetsuya, 1919-2002, author.

Contributor:

Karetnyk, Bryan, translator.

Series:

Inspector Onitsura mysteries ; 1

Standardized Title:

Kuroi hakucho. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Detectives--Japan--Fiction.

Detectives.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Railroad travel--Japan--Fiction.

Railroad travel.

Deception--Fiction.

Deception.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

347 pages : map ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Vertigo/Pushkin Press, [2024]

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

Early one June morning, locomotive No.783 screams to a halt. A man's body lies next to the railway tracks, shot in the back. The dead man was a factory owner with many enemies, but they all seem to have unbreakable alibis. And for every delay in the investigation, there is a further price to pay in blood. Desperate for help, the police call on the indefatigable Inspector Onitsura. Crisscrossing the country by train, he begins to unravel the threads of a dark deception -- but it will take a stroke of brilliance to bring the cunning culprit to justice.

Notes:

First published as Kuroi Hakucho by Kodansha in Tokyo, 1960.

ISBN:

9781805335238

1805335235

OCLC:

1518864078