num_pages: 349
description: The third title in Japans most popular murder mystery series  after The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse  fiendish classics featuring investigator Kosuke Kindaichi.Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure were murdered by the inhabitants bringing a terrible curse down upon their village.Centuries later a mysterious young man named Tatsuya arrives in town bringing a spate of deadly poisonings in his wake. The inimitably scruffy and brilliant Kosuke Kindaichi investigates.
language: English
title: The Village of Eight Graves
publisher: Pushkin Vertigo