My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Konishi, Masateru

My Grandfather, the Master Detective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798217177639)

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Format: Hardcover
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My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Konishi, Masateru

My Grandfather, the Master Detective

$29.00
My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Konishi, Masateru

My Grandfather, the Master Detective

$29.00
Format: Hardcover
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A Japanese The Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this Japanese bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan.

He's not your average Grandpa.

As a lover of classic crime stories, it's no surprise that schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyday mysteries more often than your typical twenty-seven-year-old.

Solving them is another matter, though. For that, she turns to her beloved grandfather, who retains a keen sharpness of mind despite his dementia, and who was once a key member of The Waseda Mystery Club. From impossible locked room murders to confounding missing persons cases, the grandfather-granddaughter duo "weave stories" to get to the bottom of every mystery. But all the while, an insidious shadow from Kaede's past slowly closes in on her . . .

Steeped in references to classic crime from Christie to Chesterton to Poe, My Grandfather, the Master Detective plays with the genre, capturing readers' imagination in this Tokyo-set escapist mystery. Its charming characters and affectionate focus on relationships echo heartwarming Japanese titles such as Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

Author: Masateru Konishi
ISBN-13: 9798217177639
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2026
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
By Masateru Konishi
By Masateru Konishi
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Masateru Konishi graduated from the Department of English and American Literature at Meiji University, and now works as a writer for TV and radio. He has previously written for the stage as well as a manga story, but My Grandfather, the Master Detective is his debut novel. Partly based on his own experience of caring for his father with dementia, the book won the twenty-first edition of the prestigious "This Mystery is Amazing!" Grand Prize.

Louise Heal Kawai has been a translator of Japanese literature since 2006, translating several different genres of contemporary fiction. Her published translations include The Cat Who Saved Books; The Honjin Murders; Daido Tamaki's Milk, which appeared in the short story anthology Inside and Other Short Fiction; Tendo Shoko's bestselling autobiography Yakuza Moon; and most recently Building Waves, a novel by feminist writer and poet Tomioka Taeko.

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