![]() ![]() ![]() First off all, Kindaichi is a great addition to the pantheon of literary detectives. ‘The Honjin Murders’ has a lot going for it. However, as the impossibilities and the complexities of the case begin to make themselves known, he will be drawn further and further in. Kindaichi, now a detective, is initially bored by the case, agreeing to come only to return Ginzo’s kindness. After Katsuko’s death, he becomes convinced that they are lying about the night of the murders, and he calls a young man he once rescued from drug addiction, Kosuke Kindaichi. Born a tenant farmer, he does not trust the aristocratic Ichiyanagi family. ![]() Ginzo Kubo, Katsuko’s uncle, is infuriated and devastated by the death of his niece. There is no chance that the crime is a suicide however, all the doors and windows were locked from the inside and there are no footprints in the snow outside. ![]() When they rush into the annex building, they discover the newlyweds stabbed to death with a katana. The other inhabitants of the estate are woken by screams and, eerily, by the frenzied playing of a koto. On their wedding night in 1937, Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new bride Katsuko Kubo are murdered on the Ichiyanagi estate. Published for the first time in 1946, it is what’s called a “locked room” murder mystery. ‘The Honjin Murders’ introduces the character Kosuke Kindaichi. ![]()
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