The Samurai Detectives

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It has been half a year since Akiyama Daijiro became a samurai; half a year since he left his father Kohei - once the most skilled swordsman in the land - to set up his own blade school by the cool of the river. Ever since, amid the swaying bamboo groves, he waits patiently for his first disciple.
But his serenity is soon disrupted by the visit of a mysterious samurai with an unhonourable offer: in exchange for a vast sum of gold, he must attack and injure the daughter of the Shogun''s most senior counsellor. Troubled by the proposal, Daijiro, alongside his father and Mifuyu, a female warrior without match, soon set out into the underworld of Edo-era Japan to uncover the conspiracy, before quickly finding themselves embroiled in a series of increasingly perilous adventures . . .
Widely considered to be the greatest work by Shotaro Ikenami, the master of Japanese historical fiction, <>

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Shotaro Ikenami

Product details

• Authors: Shotaro Ikenami, Ikenami Shotaro
• Assisted by: Yui Kajita (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 30.10.2025
• EAN: 9781405975766
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-7576-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The Samurai Detectives
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Japan, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, Historical adventure, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, Historical adventure fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: police procedural, c 1600 to 1867 (Japanese Edo period), FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Classic fiction: general and literary