![]() ![]() Kindaichi initially believes Wakabayashi’s predictions to be overblown, but when the lawyer is poisoned moments before their meeting, he realises someone in the Inugami clan will stop at nothing to secure Sahei’s fortune. But Wakabayashi has seen the will and knows it will have the power to rip the family apart in blood and fury. Each of Sahei’s three daughters waits, hawk-like, with their husbands and children in tow. Everyone is breathlessly waiting for his will to be read, to reveal how his fortune will be divided. The powerful businessman Sahei Inugami has recently died, sending shockwaves through the local community, for whom he was a figurehead. As the novel opens, Kindaichi arrives in the lakeside town of Nasu, north of Tokyo, after receiving a worrying letter from the lawyer Wakabayashi. Enter The Inugami Curse, the second novel in the series to be translated by Pushkin Vertigo, which like the earlier book blends a highly readable mystery with insights into traditional Japanese culture. ![]() I really enjoyed my introduction to Kosuke Kindaichi in The Honjin Murders, and was keen to read more of his adventures. ![]()
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