"Astrology Murder Magic" Author: [Japan] Shimada Soji Publisher: New Star Publishing

◎Ranked 3rd in the "Top 100 Japanese Mystery Novels" voted by Japan's Weekly Bunshun magazine

◎Ranked 2nd in the "Top Ten Locked Room Mystery Novels in the World" selected by The Guardian, UK

◎The author revised the entire text, added lists, supplemented content, and attached a ten-thousand-word postscript

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★Content Introduction

Forty years ago, a serial murder case based on astrology shocked the whole of Japan! First, the painter Heikichi Umezawa was beaten to death in a secret room, then his eldest daughter who had already married was raped and murdered at home, and finally even his six daughters who lived with him disappeared. The bodies were found buried all over Japan, and each of them had a part of their body cut off!

Forty years later, astrologer and part-time detective Kiyoshi Mitarai decides to crack this super-large-scale and incredible astrological murder magic within a week!

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Media reviews

Selected as one of the top 10 mystery novels of the 20th century by the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award.

Selected as the third in the Detective Fiction Research Association's Top 100 Mysteries from 1975 to 1994.

Selected as one of Weekly Bunshun's top 100 mystery novels.