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The Master Key by Masako Togawa
Pushkin Press

The Master Key by Masako Togawa

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Trade paperback format.  Part of Pushkin Press' excellent Vertigo series.

Translated by Simon Grove. 

Recommended!  If you've been looking for a different take on Miss Marple's small-village experience, this peek into the small world of an apartment building provides similar unexpected thrills.

The prize-winning debut mystery from one of Japan’s best-loved crime writers

The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over one hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old—and in some cases, evil.

Their residence conceals a secret connecting the unsolved 1951 kidnapping of four-year-old George Kraft to the clandestine burial of a child’s body in the basement bath-house. So, when news comes that the building must be moved to make way for a road-building project, more than one tenant waits with apprehension for the grisly revelation that will follow. Then the master key is lost, stolen and re-stolen—and suddenly no-one feels safe.

Fiendish intrigue, double identity and an ingenious plot make this a thriller worthy of comparison with the work of P.D. James.