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Shinjuku Shark
Arimasa Osawa | Andrew Clare

Shinjuku Shark

Vertical (2007)
1st ed.
9781932234374
| Paperback
285 pages | 137 x 221 mm | eng
Dewey 895.635
LC Classification PL858.S29S4713 2007
LC Control No. 2009275305

Genre

  • Mystery Fiction
  • Suspense Fiction

Subject

  • Police murders - Fiction
  • Serial murder investigation - Fiction

Plot

A serial cop-killer is running rampant in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward and only one man has the connections and the courage to find and stop him -- The Shark. Filled with volatile characters, each wiht his own unique ties, Shinjuku Shark is a masterpiece of nonstop tension.Arimasa Osawa is one of Japan's leading hardboiled novelists, influenced by American authors such as Elmore Leonard. His famous work, Shinjuku Shark (the first installment in a series) won the Eiji Yoshikawa Award for fiction and the Naoki Prize.

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Value

Purchased May 20, 2012 at Kinokuniya for $ 14.95

Notes

Originally published in 1990 as: Shinjukuzame. Tokyo : Kobunsha, 1990.