Murder at the Black Cat Cafe

By Seishi Yokomizo

FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS--THE 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 woman's face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the caf 's black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the caf 's garden? As the legendary scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates, he realizes the caf 's enigmatic madam, Oshima, has a past shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly is her relationship with the owner, Itoshima?

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GP3C9YWB
• ISBN13: 9798228833555
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Tantor
• Length: 1 Pages