Samurai Detective
Author: Eric A. Anderson
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781582407586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSam, a samurai detective, gets revenge on the people who killed Jasmine by using his swords and his cunning.
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Demon in the Teahouse
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 2005-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780756967253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a series of fires in Japan's capital points to foul-play, the famous samurai Judge Ooka puts 14-year-old Seikei on the case to discover who's behind them. Determined to prove his worth, Seikei poses as a teahouse attendant to gather information, and winds up entering the mysterious worlds of geishas and revenge.
In Darkness, Death
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780142403662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.
A Samurai Never Fears Death
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2008-10-16
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 0142412082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen he returns home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samurai, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.
Daughter of the Sword
Author: Steve Bein
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 045141635X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the only female detective in Tokyo's most elite police unit, Mariko Oshiro has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. But when he gives her the least promising case possible, the attempted theft of an old samurai sword, it proves more dangerous than anyone on the force could have imagined. Mariko's investigation has put her on a collision course with a curse centuries old and as bloodthirsty as ever. She is only the latest in a long line of warriors and soldiers to confront this power, and even the sword she wields could turn against her.
The Way of the Traitor
Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher: Villard
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0307801489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a novel with echoes of Noble House, The Alchemist, and Gorky Park, Japan's preeminent detective-Samurai, Sano Ichiro, returns to risk his honor and life. In 1690 Nagasaki, Sano must crack his most sensitive case yet as he sets about to discover who killed a Dutch trader whose body has washed up on the shore of a small island famed for its "barbarians."
The Red-Headed Demon
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher:
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781494770891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdopted samurai Seikei goes to the shogun's palace to view a demonstration of European medicine. Instead, he sees a murder as one of the foreigners dies of poisoning. Another of the foreigners wants to take away the young nephew of the dead man, but the boy is reluctant. He does not speak Japanese, so to keep him out of harm's way, Seikei's foster father tells Seikei to take him to the foreigners' base at Nagasaki. What seems like a simple task soon turns into a dangerous one, for many people seem to want the boy for their own peculiar purposes. Seikei has to use all his ingenuity and daring to carry out his mission and find the murderer as well.
The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi
Author: Kidō Okamoto
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006-12-31
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0824831004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"That year, quite a shocking incident occurred. . . ." So reminisces old Hanshichi in a story from one of Japan’s most beloved works of popular literature, Hanshichi torimonochô. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kidô’s best-known work inaugurated the historical detective genre in Japan, spawning stage, radio, movie, and television adaptations as well as countless imitations. This selection of fourteen stories, translated into English for the first time, provides a fascinating glimpse of life in feudal Edo (later Tokyo) and rare insight into the development of the fledgling Japanese crime novel. Once viewed as an exclusively modern genre derivative of Western fiction, crime fiction and its place in the Japanese popular imagination were forever changed by Kidô’s "unsung Sherlock Holmes." These stories—still widely read today—are crucial to our understanding of modern Japan and its aspirations toward a literature that steps outside the shadow of the West to stand on its own.
The Iris Fan
Author: Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2014-12-09
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1466847433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRiveting and richly imagined, with a magnificent sense of time and place, The Iris Fan is the triumphant conclusion to Laura Joh Rowland's brilliant series of thrillers set in feudal Japan. Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichiro has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Lord Ienobu has left him puzzled and wary. Sano's onetime friend Hirata is a reluctant conspirator in a plot against the ruling regime. Yet, Sano's dedication to the Way of the Warrior—the samurai code of honor—is undiminished. Then a harrowing, almost inconceivable crime takes place. In his own palace, the shogun is stabbed with a fan made of painted silk with sharp-pointed iron ribs. Sano is restored to the rank of chief investigator to find the culprit. This is the most significant, and most dangerous, investigation of his career. If the shogun's heir is displeased, he will have Sano and his family put to death without waiting for the shogun's permission, then worry about the consequences later. And Sano has enemies of his own, as well as unexpected allies. As the previously unimaginable death of the shogun seems ever more possible, Sano finds himself at the center of warring forces that threaten not only his own family but Japan itself.
Seven Paths to Death
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780399246104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSamurai Seikei and Judge Ooka, his foster-father, seek seven men who have seven maps on their backs in order to locate a cache of dangerous weapons before they fall into the wrong hands.
