In this smart and funny homage to Edgar Allan Poe set in modern-day Tokyo, a brilliant young professor known as "The Black Cat" and his female sidekick-slash-amanuensis, a Poe-obsessed graduate student, collaborate to solve a series of armchair mysteries, drawing clues from fields as diverse as 19th-century Parisian cartography, Noh, and classical Greek drama. Winner of the 2011 Agatha Christie Award.
Author Biography
Ian M. MacDonald is an award-winning translator of Japanese fiction and nonfiction. He holds a doctorate in Japanese literature from Stanford. His first book, The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi was serialized in The Japan Times. His recent works include the Edogawa Rampo Prize-winning novel The Case of the Sharaku Murders by Katsuhiko Takahashi and Tales of the Ghost Sword by Hideyuki Kikuchi. He divides his time between Singapore, Japan, Sri Lanka, and the UK.
