The demon in the teahouse
By: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler.
Contributors: Hoobler, Thomas.
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Ōoka, Tadasuke, -- 1677?-1751? -- Fiction; Geishas -- Fiction; Samurai -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 -- Juvenile fiction; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
Notes: Sequel to: The ghost in the Tokaido Inn.

Sequel: The ninja and the butterfly.

Originally published in the United States: Philomel Books, 2001.