| Description |
188 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Pushkin Vertigo |
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Pushkin Vertigo.
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| Note |
"The master key was first published in Japanese by Kodansha in 1962. First English translation published by Dodd Mead, 1985. First published by Pushkin Press in 2017"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old - and in some cases, evil. Their residence conceals a secret, a secret connecting the unsolved kidnapping in 1951 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. |
| Subject |
Theft -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Fiction.
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Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Mystery fiction.
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| Added Author |
Grove, Simon, translator.
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| Added Title |
Ōinaru gen'ei. English
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| ISBN |
9781782273639 (paperback) |
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1782273638 (paperback) |
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