Tokyo zodiac

The owner of the literary award No. 1 in Japan is "Japanese detective literature".
Short list of the prize "Edogawa Rampo"
A few tens of millions of books sold in Asia alone.

Japan, 1936. The eccentric artist, who lived with six daughters, stepdaughter and nieces, was found dead in a room locked from the inside. His diaries dedicated to alchemy and astrology contained a detailed plan for the murder of each of them. To deprive the life of several to give life alone, but perfect - the owner of the most powerful qualities of all the signs of the zodiac. And shortly after this, the plan was fulfilled: parts of the bodies of these women are found hidden throughout Japan.
By 1979, the Tokyo murders in the zodiac have excited the nation for decades, but were never disclosed. The predictor of fate, the astrologer and the great detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and his illustrator must solve the secret of this impossible crime in one week. You have all the necessary keys, but can you find a guess before they do it?

"The god of riddles" - this is the name of Simad Suji in Japan. It was he who created Honkaku -detective - a new genre so popular in the country of the rising sun. A detective in which the reader is offered an honest intellectual game: to reveal the matter before the main character does. Suji was the first to unite European classics with Japanese exotic, rationalism with mysticism. His great detective is not just a man of sharp mind and brilliant analytical abilities, like Sherlock Holmes, Erkul Poirot and Niro Wulf, but an astrologer and predictor of fate. Roman Suji belongs to the category of "must read" for every Japanophila self -respecting - it is literally saturated with interesting information about the history, culture and geography of Japan of the pre -war period.

The Great Simada Suji literally invented a whole squeal of the "logical riddle".
- The guardian

"" Croinker and excitingly exotic. "
- Japan Times

"One of the most original solutions that I have ever met."
- Anthony Gorovitz