Yumenoshima (The Golden Mystery Series)

Author: Keigo Higashigawa
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: This book's table of contents introduction: Chapter Three Sisters; Chapter Two Hair Salon; Chapter Three Patrol Officer; Chapter Four About Monks; Chapter Five Ancient Tree and; Prison Gate Island – an inauspicious name, for three hundred years in the Edo period, it was a place of exile for criminals and pirates. Kintaro Kogashiwa, upon the request of his dying friend Chikunada Kihada, goes to the island to deliver the news of his death and visit his three sisters. The three beautiful and charming sisters of the Kihada family are innocent and joyful, yet they are all doomed one after another over three consecutive nights. Kako is hung upside down on the ancient plum tree at Chikogu Temple; Yukie is locked inside a huge bell; Tsukuyo is strangled in the family's Buddhist hall, her death eerie and tragic. Pirates appear and disappear, the family members rejoice at the misfortune, and terror engulfs Prison Gate Island! Kintaro Kogashiwa, by deciphering the enigmatic verses of Matsuo Basho, finally discovers