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After thirty minutes of struggle, he gave up.

The Lady Killer by Masako Towada

April 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So this is a crime thriller written by a Japanese writer in the 1960s. I guess I didn’t know that existed, which is my fault and my mistake. I liked this novel and felt that it did some masterful work at giving us the primary suspect with a pretty close camera behind his shoulder throughout the whole thing, and it was never clear until the very end whether or not he was guilty. The novel is about a young man named Ichiro, who is married, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: masako towada, the lady killer

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:182 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: masako towada, the lady killer ·
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