The Tokyo Zodiac Murders 4 (Pushkin Vertigo)

A bestselling and internationally-acclaimed masterpiece of the locked-room mystery genre|Born in 1948 in Hiroshima prefecture Soji Shimada has been dubbed the 'God of Mystery' by international audiences. A novelist essayist and short-story writer he made his literary debut in 1981 with The Tokyo Zodiac Murders which was shortlisted for the Edogawa Rampo Prize. Blending classical detective fiction with grisly violence and elements of the occult he has gone on to publish several highly acclaimed series of mystery fiction including the casebooks of Kiyoshi Mitarai and Takeshi Yoshiki. He is the author of 100+ works in total.In 2009 Shimada received the prestigious Japan Mystery Literature Award in recognition of his life's work.|'If you like your crime stories to be bloody and bizarre then this one may be for you. The winner of several major awards... the solution is one of the most original that I've ever read' Anthony HorowitzA bestselling and internationally-acclaimed masterpiece of the locked-room mystery genreJapan 1936. An old eccentric artist living with seven women has been found dead - in a room locked from the inside. His diaries reveal alchemy astrology and a complicated plan to kill all seven women. Shortly afterwards the plan is carried out: the women are found dismembered and buried across rural Japan.By 1979 these Tokyo Zodiac Murders have been obsessing a nation for decades but not one of them has been solved. A mystery-obsessed illustrator and a talented astrologer set off around the country - and you follow carrying the enigma of the Zodiac murderer through madness missed leads and magic tricks. You have all the clues but can you solve the mystery before they do?