Death on Gokumon Island — Seishi Yokomizo

A classic Japanese puzzle mystery from the author of The Honjin Murders, featuring Detective Kosuke Kindaichi.

Translated into English for the first time.

The rockbound and forbidding Gokumon Island was once a pirate stronghold. Now it is home to a clannish fishing community, dominated by two feuding families.

When Kosuke Kindaichi arrives bringing news of a death, it triggers a series of grotesquely staged murders. The scruffy detective attempts to untangle the island’s secrets and stop the killings, but a fresh mystery seems to greet him at every turn, and soon he falls under suspicion himself…

The fiendish Death on Gokumon Island is one the best-loved classic murder mysteries by the master of Japanese crime.