An upright young samurai, a cross-dressing sword-wielding maiden, a retired warrior, honor killings, killings not-so-honorable and lovers of all kinds. Welcome to The Samurai Detectives, the first part of a series of popular historical mystery novels by Shōtarō Ikenami (1923-1990). Originally written as a serialization in the monthly magazine Shosetsu Shincho between 1972 and 1989, […]
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