Futaro Yamada's The Meiji Guillotine Murders deserves to be ranked among the classics, such is its depth and ingenious construction - a riveting overarching historical mystery made up of a series of short intellectual detective stories recalling the serialised releases of Conan Doyle or Poe, with each chapter another diabolical puzzle involving murder set against the upheavals of the Meiji Restoration - a shaken language system, for example, or upended religions, wild new fashions and social classes, unusual imported methods of crime and punishment, and upheaved politics, just to start!
★★★★★
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