FROM ONE OF JAPAN’S GREATEST CRIME WRITERSTHE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Caf is as it seems. . .

In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal

In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing The Black Cat Caf makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hastily dug hole, with a dead black cat by her side. The womans face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the cafs black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the cafs garden?

As the legendary scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates, he realizes the cafs enigmatic madam, Oshima, has a past shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly is her relationship with the owner, Itoshima?

Murder at the Black Cat Caf is the latest instalment in the Kosuke Kindaichi mysteriesthe classic series that made Seishi Yokomizo Japans greatest and best-loved crime writer of all time. This edition also includes a bonus story, The Well Wheel Creaks.