Queen Bee (Golden Mystery Series)

Author: Keigo Higashino
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: The catalog introduction of this book: Chapter Moonlit Island; Chapter 2 Locked Room; Chapter 3 Mysterious Client; Chapter 4 Vanishing Bats; The peerless beauty, Madam Toshiko Dojima on Moonlit Island, is actually the "Bee Queen"? Following her mother's last wishes, Toshiko Dojima sets off for her adoptive father's house in Tokyo at the age of eighteen, yet inexplicably sees red letters written with lipstick in the bathroom mirror: "Go back! You are surrounded by blood!" Meanwhile, her adoptive father also receives a threatening letter: "She is the Queen Bee. All men who admire her will meet a tragic end. Could this be the same as the tragedy from nineteen years ago?" In just a few short weeks, seven people die around Toshiko. Jin-ichi Kato is tasked with escorting Toshiko to Tokyo and investigating the case, only to unexpectedly uncover the truth behind her father's death nineteen years ago.