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Set in pre-war Japan this locked room mystery book is narrated in a way that is almost meta. It references other mystery books such as Agatha Christi and also directly speaks to the reader.
Kenzo Ichiyanagi is set to marry Katsuko Kubo in the Ichiyanagi family's large estate in rurual Japan. The night following their wedding the residents of the house wake up to screams and the picking of a Koto. They find the newlyweds dead and soaking in their own crimson-colored blood. Enter the locked room mystery that now needs to be solved.
Kosuke Kindaichi, a twenty-something-year-old private detective, is sent for and he goes about solving the mystery. Is it the three fingered man who was asking about the location of the Ichiyanagi's estae a few days before and whose prints are being found all over the crime scene or someone else? Read the book and you'll be able to see for yourself.
I wish that the fleshed out the Kosuke character a little more. Basically all we know is that he is in his twenties, dresses kind of slovently and has unkempt hair. He solved a long unsolved crime in San Francisco while studying abroad in the USA and has become a private detective upoin returning to Japan. No real character developement with him.
I also wish that the explanation was done a little better or that the method was entirerly different.
Not a bad book and I will read the next book in the series, but I am no racing to get my hands on the next book because this one didn't leave me speachless
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