Black Swan Mystery

<b>THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan--for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto! <p/>Full of devious twists and turns this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest alibi deconstruction mysteries ever written</b> <p/>Early one morning the owner of a local mill is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union with whom the man had been embroiled in a labour dispute then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently. <p/>Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate and soon set off in a journey across Japan from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka and finally to the island of Kyūshu in a hunt for the killer. <p/>But as they investigate the killer strikes again and again. Will they be able to catch the murderer before even more people are slain? <p/>Fans of Agatha Christie's <i>4.50 from Paddington </i>and Seicho Matsumoto's <i>Tokyo Express</i> will delight in the devious twists and turns of <i>The Black Swan Mystery</i> as well as in the characterisation and portrait of 1960s Japan. <p/>The author Tetsuya Ayukawa is considered to be the master of alibi deconstruction mysteries-a talent that is on full display in this brilliant classic railway murder mystery which won the prestigious Japanese Detective Writers Club Prize.