
Blurb
At the edge of a deep black forest, a man who has been shot in the leg arrives at a cabin where an old man, once called a great doctor, lives alone. The man is wanted as a suspect in a series of assaults and murders of young girls that have caused a sensation in the world. The old man, who is supposed to be so misanthropic that he doesn't even meet his deliveryman, for some reason decides to hide the man. At the same time, the old man receives a series of eerie packages from an unknown sender. ....
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Page Count:
288
ISBN:
4041065976
ISBN13:
9784041065976
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catsays
March 12, 2024
omk3says
March 12, 2024
An entertaining mystery, as can be reliably expected from Akagawa, but nothing more.
The book was fun to read and kept me guessing to the end. There was a nice gradual build-up of suspense that almost felt like horror at times, which was, surprisingly, interspersed with some slapstick elements here and there.
That's also my criticism of the book. It felt unbalanced and even undecided in terms of genre. The mix of humour and horror-ish tension didn't quite work for me. The beginning of the cha
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March 9, 2024
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Neginrated
March 11, 2024
Content warnings: murder, reference to sexual assault
Overall one of 赤川次郎's better books. The mystery is intriguing, the tension is held tight, and the ending is rapid fire without a long wrap up. The ending was actually a little bit too rapid fire, but I enjoyed it immensely anyways due to the aforementioned long tension.
This is harder than most other books I've read by the same author. I wouldn't call it a particularly difficult book, but compared to his other works it uses a wider range