The Perfumed Sleeve (Sano Ichiro Mystery) - Hardcover

Rowland, Laura Joh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312318898 ISBN 13: 9780312318895

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2004

Synopsis

November, 1694. The streets of Edo are erupting in violence as two groups struggle for control over the ruling Tokugawa regime. One faction is led by the shogun's cousin and the other by the shogun's second-in-command. Each side would like Sano Ichiro, the shogun's most honourable investigator, to join its ranks. Despite temptation, he remains loyal to the shogun. But neutrality comes with a terrible price, and when a high-ranking official is found brutally murdered, Sano is thrown into another investigation filled with sex and danger and political intrigue.

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Review:

""Sano may carry a sword and wear a kimono, but you'll immediately recognize him as an ancestor of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade." "Rowland has a painter's eye for the minutiae of court life, as well as a politician's ear for intrigue."-"The New York Times Book Review""Think James Clavell meets Raymond Chandler."-"San Francisco Chronicle""Sano may carry a sword and wear a kimono, but you'll immediately recognize him as an ancestor of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade."-"Denver Post""Deftly combining a classic whodunit with vivid period detail, Rowland raises the stakes for her next book with an unexpected twist at the end that promises to present her dogged but fallible hero with even more difficulties in the future."-"Publishers Weekly "on "The Perfumed Sleeve "

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"[Rowland's] Japan is a mix of Kabuki theater-like stylized formality, palace intrigue, and physical action that would do a martial arts movie proud."
--The Times-Picayune on The Dragon King's Palace

"Rowland's masterful evocation of the period enables the reader to identify with the universal human emotions and drives that propel her characters while absorbing numerous telling details of a different culture and era."
--Publishers Weekly on The Dragon King's Palace

"Rowland's dazzling array of entertaining narratives continues to score points with readers, with exotic locales, a flair for dramatics.... Highly recommended."
--The Japan Times on The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria

"Sano may carry a sword and wear a kimono, but you'll immediately recognize him as an ancestor of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade."--The Denver Post

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312318898
• ISBN 13: 9780312318895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336