The Hell Screen: A Mystery of Ancient Japan
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780812580464 (081258046X)
Publish date: September 30th 2003
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
Mystery,
Asian Literature,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Japan
Series: Sugawara Akitada (#5)
Book 2, in the Sugawara Akitada seriesSome sites will show this book as the 5th in the series. The Hell Screen, set in eleventh century Japan, features government official Sugawara Akitada and occasional amateur detective. It is a solid multilayered mystery with detailed attention to Ancient Japan, ...
"A mystery of ancient Japan."I actually meant to wait to read this book till I'd read the first book in the series, "Rashomon Gate." But then I wound up confusing it with Laura Joh Rowland's "Shinju," and forgot that I hadn't read the novel's predecessor. Turns out – not a big deal. Like many myster...
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