| 词条 | The Murder in the Honjin |
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The first novel in the Kosuke Kindaichi series, it concerns a murder in a locked room in a Japanese mansion surrounded by thick snow. StoryOn 25 November 1937, at a former honjin in Okayama, the wedding of Kenzou Ichiyanagi and Katsuko Kubo is held. The celebrants include the mother Itoko, the third son Saburo, the second daughter Suzuko, the cousin Ryousuke, and Ginzo Kubo, Katsuko's uncle. During the ceremony, Suzuko plays the koto, and everything ends without incident. Later that night, the wild sound of the koto is heard across the mansion. Ginzo rushes to the newly wedded couple's bedroom, only to find the couple killed in a brutal fashion. A Japanese sword is later found thrust into the ground in the middle of the garden, with no footprints on the surrounding thick snow, creating a perfect locked room mystery. Main charactersKey figures
A private detective, summoned by Ginzo Kubo
An inspector from Okayama prefecture in charge of the case
A schoolteacher, married to Kenzou Ichiyanagi
The owner of an orchard, Katsuko's uncle House Ichiyanagi
The mother of the family
The eldest son, the present head of family, and a scholar
The eldest daughter, married to a company employee and travelling to Shanghai
The second son, working as a doctor at a hospital in Osaka
The third son
The second daughter, in poor health, but excellent at the koto
The family's cousin
Ryousuke's wife{{DEFAULTSORT:Murder in the Honjin}} 7 : 1946 novels|20th-century Japanese novels|Novels first published in serial form|Works originally published in Japanese magazines|Locked room mysteries|1937 in fiction|Novels set in Japan |
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