Rashomon Gate - Softcover

I. J. Parker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143035606 ISBN 13: 9780143035602

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2006

Synopsis

From the author of The Dragon Scroll comes an ingenious new novel of murder and malfeasance in ancient Japan, featuring the detective Sugawara Akitada. The son of reduced nobility forced to toil in the Ministry of Justice, Akitada is relieved when an old friend, Professor Hirata, asks him to investigate a friend's blackmail. Taking a post at the Imperial University, he is soon sidetracked from his primary case by the murder of a young girl and the mysterious disappearance of an old man--a disappearance that the Emperor himself declares a miracle. Rashomon Gate is a mystery of magnificent complexity and historical detail that will leave readers yearning for more.

About this title

Review:

Parker has created a wonderful protagonist in Akitada. ("The Boston Globe")

About the Author:

I. J. Parker, winner of the Shamus Award for "Akitada's First Case," a short story published in 1999, lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She writes regularly for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143035606
• ISBN 13: 9780143035602
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383