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Death on Gokumon Island
- Narrated by: Akira Matsumoto
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
A fiendish classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers, Seishi Yokomizo.
Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news—the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger—with his last words, the dying man warned that his three step-sisters’ lives would now be in danger. The scruffy detective is determined to get to the bottom of this mysterious prophesy, and to protect the three women if he can.
As Kosuke Kindaichi attempts to unravel the island’s secrets, a series of gruesome murders begins. He investigates, but soon finds himself in mortal danger from both the unknown killer and the clannish locals, who resent this outsider meddling in their affairs.
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- Spangles
- 29-09-23
More Golden Age Japanese mystery
I think this book within the series is best read in sequence, after others, as this time you’re asked to understand Japanese culture and then factor in how an isolated community might work differently from modern urban society.
The plot is clever, possibly a bit too clever. As in all the books I’ve read in this series, there were jarring notes relating to the treatment of women, plus in this one the care of a deranged man. There’s a ‘build’ to the final murder though, that keeps you turning the page, and I really wanted to know how the scruffy detective would react to the part he had played in the tragedy.
I think the narrator does a great job to differentiate characters and city/rural types - and I’ve either got used to his kiwi accent or he has toned it down. However there’s one word he must surely be mispronouncing. You’ll spot it when it comes - I can forgive him this!
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