Akimitsu Takagi

The Noh Mask Murder

Übersetzung:Kirkwood, Jesse

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Produktbeschreibung

A gruesome Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Tattoo Murder

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 124mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 171g
• ISBN-13: 9781782279655
• ISBN-10: 1782279652
• Artikelnr.: 69149973

Autorenporträt

AKIMITSU TAKAGI was born in Japan in 1920 and went on to work as an aeronautical engineer until the end of the Second World War. He later decided to become a mystery writer on the recommendation of a fortune teller. He went on to become one of the country's most popular crime authors. The Noh Mask Murder won the prestigious Mystery Writers Club Award and is considered one of the great classic Japanese whodunits. It is his second novel to appear in English, following The Tattoo Murder Case. JESSE KIRKWOOD is a literary translator working from Japanese into English. The recipient of the 2020 Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize, his translations include The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto and A Perfect Day to Be Alone by Nanae Aoyama.