Introducing Inspector Imanishi, Haiku poet, gardener and the most respected and dogged homicide detective on the Tokyo police force. A police procedural in the classic tradition of P. D. James's Commander Dalgleish. First rate. - The New York Times An intriguing slice of the mores and habits of Japanese society...Seicho Matsumoto combines the prolific output of a Rex Stout with the literary qualities of Elmore Leonard. - San Francisco Chronicle A superb thriller. - Los Angeles Times