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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.
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