Suspicion / Seicho Matsumoto ; translated by Jesse Kirkwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matsumoto, Seichō, 1909-1992, author.

Contributor:

Kirkwood, Jesse, translator.

Series:

Modern classics

Standardized Title:

Noboru Ashioto. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Femmes fatales--Japan--Fiction.

Femmes fatales.

Japanese fiction--Translations into English.

Japanese fiction.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery stories, Japanese.

Physical Description:

97 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Penguin Books, 2026.

Summary:

Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime, using her connections to the local yakuza to get by. When she meets Shirakawa Fukutaro, a rich widower desperate for companionship and unaware of her shady past, the two hit it off and are soon married. But their newlywed bliss is suddenly cut short: one rainy July evening, their car veers off course, plunges into the harbour and Fukutaro is pulled beneath the waves. Suspected of murder and labelled a femme fatale, Kumako is hounded by the press, but stays firm, repeatedly proclaiming her own innocence. As pressure from dogged journalists mounts, the tide of public opinion is rising against her. But when a scrupulous defence lawyer takes on her case, doubt begins to creep in.

Notes:

Translated from the Japanese.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Anonymous gift.

ISBN:

9780241724422

0241724422

OCLC:

1586603497