Astrologer fortuneteller and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a
macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years. Who murdered the artist Umezawa
raped and killed his daughter and then chopped up the bodies of six others to create Azoth
the supreme woman? With maps charts and other illustrations this story of magic and illusion
pieced together like a great stage tragedy challenges the reader to unravel the mystery before
the final curtain.
