A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's
greatest crime writers
Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the
brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all
the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries.
Detective Kosuke 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 to protect the three women
if he can.
As Kindaichi attempts to unravel the island's secrets, a series of
gruesome murders begins. He investigates, but soon finds himself in
mortal danger from both the unknown killer and the clannish locals, who
resent this outsider meddling in their affairs.
