num_pages: 214
description: While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
language: English
title: The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
titlecomplete: The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Detective, #1)
characters: Seikei Konoike, Ōoka Tadasuke
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Asia, Mystery, Japan, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 2707
places: Japan
series: Samurai Detective
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Puffin Books