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The Devil’s Flute Murders
The Devil’s Flute Murders | Seishi Yokomizo
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A fiendish, classic locked-room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers, that’s perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and Anthony Horowitz Another classic Japanese mystery from the great Seishi Yokomizo, whose fictional detective Kosuke Kindaichi is a pop culture phenomenon akin to Sherlock Holmes. This time the scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates a series of gruesome murders within the feuding family of a brooding, troubled composer, whose most famous work chills the blood of all who hear it.
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rabbitprincess
The Devil’s Flute Murders | Seishi Yokomizo
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Like Death on Gokumon Island, The Devil‘s Flute Murders is a slow burn, but the build-up and heightened tension really works here. What did not work for me was the revelation of the motives behind the murders—it felt really distasteful. There was also a sizeable helping of sexism that I don‘t recall being present in other books in the series. That said, will I keep reading these as they're translated? Probably.