The Masuda affair : a Sugawara Akitada mystery

Format:

Book

Title:

The Masuda affair : a Sugawara Akitada mystery

Author:

Parker, I. J. (Ingrid J.)

ISBN:

9781847512666

9780727869258

Publication Information:

Sutton, Surrey, England : Severn House, 2010.

Physical Description:

294 pages ; 23 cm

Series title(s):

Akitada series.

Summary:

11th century government official Sugawara Akitada discovers an abandoned, mute boy, and seeks his family while his faithful servant Tora tries to deal with the loss of his new bride to a powerful man. Eventually their two quests overlap.

Subject(s):

Sugawara Akitada (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Public officers -- Fiction.

Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- Fiction.

Japan.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Historical fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Mystery fiction.

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A Sugawara Akitada Mystery of Ancient Japan - Eleventh-century Japan. Government official Sugawara Akitada finds a small mute boy on a deserted road. Akitada, still grieving for his own small son, determines to find the boy's parents. Meanwhile, Akitada's faithful servant Tora has troubles of his own: he has lost his new bride to a powerful man who pursues beautiful women and will stop at nothing to possess them. The trails of these two seemingly unrelated cases lead Akitada and Tora to the entertainers and prostitutes of the amusement quarter, and murder follows in their footsteps . . .