James Melville, Author Scribner Book Company $15.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-684-18947-5
Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Kobe Police Force is back for his ninth appearance. A Dutch woman named Marianna van Wijk has been killed under mysterious circumstances during a fire. The fire is linked to a yakuza gang and, unfortunately, the...
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James Melville, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-684-19131-7
Among the strangest and most engaging in Melville's Japanese mystery series, the 10th recalls Inspector Otani's stay years earlier, on Awaji Island, far from home and his wife Hanae. There he is put in charge of a case involving a murder inside the...
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James Melville, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-32989-1
Mystery fans who delight in Melville's exotic tales of sleuthing will welcomehis new novel, featuring again the estimable Superintendent Otani and others of the Kobe, Japan, police. The men and women on the force are trying to solve related cases:...
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James Melville, Author Fawcett Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-21835-8
``Among the strangest and most engaging in Melville's Japanese mystery series,'' this recalls Inspector Otani's stay years earlier on Awaji Island, where he is put in charge of a case involving a murder inside the island's Shinto shrine. PW...
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James Melville, Author Severn House Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4717-1
Having built a healthy following for his Japanese police detective, Superintendent Tetsuo Otani over the course of 13 novels, Melville here introduces a new series hero, cultural attache Ben Lazenby of the British Foreign Service. The newly divorced
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James Melville, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19247-5
Disjointed and confusing, this 11th tale in the Superintendent Otani series ( A Haiku for Hanae ) is a resounding disappointment. Japanese police superintendent Tetsuo Otani is alerted by his sister-in-law, professor Michiko Yanagida, to the strange
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James Melville, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19413-4
A change of narrative voice yields refreshing new insights but slows the pace of the 12th case for senior Japanese police officer Tetsuo Otani. Now getting on in years, Inspector Otani muses in the first person on the amateur theatrical career of a...
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