Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo #literature 2018: walking in the woods

2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head teacher

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Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo #literature 2018: walking in the woodsKosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news the son of one of the island's most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger with his last words, the dying man warned that his three step sisters' lives would now be in danger. The scruffy detective is determined to get to the bottom of this mysterious prophesy, and