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