Masako Togawa

An unknown killer roams through Tokyo's bars and nightclubs, seeking out single women who have been previously picked up by a mysterious Mr. Honda

The Lady Killer

The prize-winning debut mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over one hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old—and in some cases, evil. Their residence conceals a secret connecting the unsolved 1951 kidnapping of four-year-old George Kraft to the clandestine burial of a child's body in the basement bath-house. So, when news comes that the building must be moved to make way for a road-building project, more than one tenant waits with apprehension for the grisly revelation that will follow. Then the master key is lost, stolen and re-stolen—and suddenly no-one feels safe. Fiendish intrigue, double identity and an ingenious plot make this a thriller worthy of comparison with the work of P.D. James. The Master Key is the seventeenth book in the Pushkin Vertigo line of crime fiction but can be read as a standalone novel.

The Master Key

Residenza per signore sole

The theft of the master key terrifies the elderly ladies living in an old apartment building in Tokyo and leads to the discovery of a child's body buried in the basement

In Tokyo, a patient tells his psychiatrist that he murdered a woman. The doctor checks and finds the victim very much alive, but in the process of his probe he is drawn into a world of sexual deviance. By a Japanese woman writer, author of 20 novels, among them A Kiss of Fire.

Slow Fuse

Appartamenti per signore sole

Kazuo Kamimura

Hideo Okazaki

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Master Key

eine Geschichte der Lust

Abe Sada

Japan, Mitte der 30er-Jahre... Eine junge Prostituierte verliebt sich in einen Restaurantbesitzer, verbringt mit ihm schier endlose Liebesnächte - bis sie ihn schließlich im Schlaf stranguliert. Nicht aus Wut oder Eifersucht, sondern aus tiefer Zuneigung entmannt sie ihn nach seinem Tod und wird Tage später, seine Genitalien immer noch in der Handtasche bei sich tragend, von der Polizei gefasst... Diese Geschichte sorgte 1936 in Japan für einen Skandal - der in den folgenden Jahren als Inspiration für mehrere Kinofilme diente, darunter »Im Reich der Sinne« von Oshima Nagisa. Dem Zeichner Kazuo Kamimura (LADY SNOWBLOOD) gelingt es, sich den Geschehnissen mit Respekt zu nähern und die unglaubliche Amour fou in künstlerisch ansprechende Bilder zu fassen.

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Lady Killer

Delivers psychological intensity and complications of plot in a gripping and bizarre story of arson, murder, and revenge

Masako Togawa

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