Akimitsu Takagi (1920-1995) was one of Japan's bestselling and most acclaimed mystery novelists. His first book--THE TATTOO MURDER CASE--appears on many critics' lists of all-time top ten Japanese mystery novels. This is the first English translation of the work, which centers on the murder of a young woman, whose missing torso bore one of the most beautiful fill-body tattoos ever rendered by her famous tattooist father.
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Akimitsu Takagi (1920-1995) was one of Japan's bestselling and most acclaimed mystery novelists. His first book--THE TATTOO MURDER CASE--appears on many critics' lists of all-time top ten Japanese mystery novels. This is the first English translation of the work, which centers on the murder of a young woman, whose missing torso bore one of the most beautiful fill-body tattoos ever rendered by her famous tattooist father.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1st US edition (orig pub in Japan in somewhat different form in1948), with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. WINNER OF THE MYSTERY WRITERS CLUB AWARD OF JAPAN in 1949. It remains to this day among the most read of Japanese detective mysteries. Using their flesh as canvas, the yakuza made full body tatoos their badge of defiiance. A seam was left in the design so that they could be collected after death in one piece without distirbing the pattern. The most famous collection is housed in Tokyo University and it is from hthere that a most unusual murder occurs-the victim's own full-body tattoo has been stolen; the "canvas" mutilated.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book First edition, First printing. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have the tiniest bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks.
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Fine in fine jacket. First edition of this English translation. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 324 pp. Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, "The Tattoo Murder Case" was first published in Tokyo in 1948. It won the Mystery Writers Club Award and remains one of the most read Japanese detective mysteries.
