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A review by helgamharb
The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi
3.0
2.5
The snake eats the frog. The frog eats the slug. The slug dissolves the snake.
And the book bores the reader to death!
If you like to read a locked-room murder mystery, then look no further! This book is what you need!
An intriguing beginning, where a torso-less body is found in a locked-from-inside bathroom, believed to be the body of a tattooed woman who used to be a geisha. There are suspects, obviously and a couple of red herrings.
You think there may be more here than meets the eye, right? Well there isn’t.
There is of course a detective who thinks he is the bee’s knees, top-notch solver of puzzles (sorry Poirot!) who doesn’t do much detecting, but theorizes incessantly and listens to every character and their aunts and uncles hypothesize as how the murder was committed.
This is indeed a mystifying mystery which the reader solves way before the detective begins his investigation aka sitting in his home, playing chess and blowing smoke rings with his cigarette.
The case was discussed and hashed out so much that it took the fun out of the revelation at the end.
Actually right until the end, where a genius non-detective miraculously solves the puzzle blow by blow, one has the feeling the author himself has no inkling who the murderer is or how the murder was committed.
Notwithstanding it being a longer book than it needed to be, it was a hoot reading it along with you, Chris, conducting our own investigation, examining the facts and making our discoveries which were spot on. Thanks, Chris!
The snake eats the frog. The frog eats the slug. The slug dissolves the snake.
And the book bores the reader to death!
If you like to read a locked-room murder mystery, then look no further! This book is what you need!
An intriguing beginning, where a torso-less body is found in a locked-from-inside bathroom, believed to be the body of a tattooed woman who used to be a geisha. There are suspects, obviously and a couple of red herrings.
You think there may be more here than meets the eye, right? Well there isn’t.
There is of course a detective who thinks he is the bee’s knees, top-notch solver of puzzles (sorry Poirot!) who doesn’t do much detecting, but theorizes incessantly and listens to every character and their aunts and uncles hypothesize as how the murder was committed.
This is indeed a mystifying mystery which the reader solves way before the detective begins his investigation aka sitting in his home, playing chess and blowing smoke rings with his cigarette.
The case was discussed and hashed out so much that it took the fun out of the revelation at the end.
Actually right until the end, where a genius non-detective miraculously solves the puzzle blow by blow, one has the feeling the author himself has no inkling who the murderer is or how the murder was committed.
Notwithstanding it being a longer book than it needed to be, it was a hoot reading it along with you, Chris, conducting our own investigation, examining the facts and making our discoveries which were spot on. Thanks, Chris!