Karen
This was a happenstance discovery in the libraries audio listing, which I jumped at the chance of listening to. The narrator, Akira Matsumoto, has a very easy to listen to voice, and to hear the correct pronunciation of the Japanese words an absolute pleasure and an education.
Originally published in 1951, this story is set in post-war Tokyo, with the Tsubaki family in mourning for their patriarch, a brooding, troubled composer known as Viscount Tsubaki. As the family gather for a divination ceremony to conjure the spirit of the Viscount, another death befalls the household and the brilliant, and very eccentric Kosuke Kindaichi is called upon to investigate.
This is the eighth Kindachi story and the 5th in English translation order, the series relying on the observational and deductive reasoning of the detective who has a low key style, despite his various eccentricities.
This particular edition is part of the brilliant Pushkin Vertigo series, a list of books that I'm dedicated to getting hold of one by one although they keep pushing the list out longer and longer and I'm not getting any younger darn it all. https://pushkinpress.com/imprint/pushkin-vertigo/
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.
This was a happenstance discovery in the libraries audio listing, which I jumped at the chance of listening to. The narrator, Akira Matsumoto, has a very easy to listen to voice, and to hear the correct pronunciation of the Japanese words an absolute pleasure and an education.
Originally published in 1951, this story is set in post-war Tokyo, with the Tsubaki family in mourning for their patriarch, a brooding, troubled composer known as Viscount Tsubaki. As the family gather for a divination ceremony to conjure the spirit of the Viscount, another death befalls the household and the brilliant, and very eccentric Kosuke Kindaichi is called upon to investigate.
This is the eighth Kindachi story and the 5th in English translation order, the series relying on the observational and deductive reasoning of the detective who has a low key style, despite his various eccentricities.
This particular edition is part of the brilliant Pushkin Vertigo series, a list of books that I'm dedicated to getting hold of one by one although they keep pushing the list out longer and longer and I'm not getting any younger darn it all. https://pushkinpress.com/imprint/pushkin-vertigo/
Originally posted at www.austcrimefiction.org.