A locked room murder mystery. Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None
the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi
Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon
Island bearing tragic news--the son of one of the island's most important families has died on
a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not
come merely as a messenger--with his last words the dying man warned that his three
step-sisters' lives would now be in danger. The scruffy detective is determined to get to the
bottom of this mysterious prophesy and to protect the three women if he can. As Kindaichi
attempts to unravel the island's secrets a series of gruesome murders begins. He investigates
but soon finds himself in mortal danger from both the unknown killer and the clannish locals
who resent this outsider meddling in their affairs.
