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| Title Statement | The black swan mystery / Tetsuya Ayukawa ; translated from the Japanese by Bryan Karetnyk. |
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| Series | Inspector Onitsura ;1 |
| Author | Ayukawa, Tetsuya, 1919-2002 |
| Additional Contributors | Karetnyk, Bryan |
| Ayukawa, Tetsuya,1919-2002 | |
| Publication | London: Pushkin Vertigo,2024. |
| Extent of Item | 347 pages |
| ISBN | 9781805335238 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07868234 |
| General Notes | First published as Kuroi Hakucho by Kodansha in Tokyo, 1960. |
| Languages | In English, 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. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Deception--Fiction |
| Detectives--Fiction--Japan | |
| Murder--Fiction--Investigation | |
| Railroad travel--Fiction--Japan | |
| By Location | Japan--Fiction |
| By Genre | Detective and mystery fiction |
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