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    Rashomon Gate: A Mystery of Ancient Japan Featuring Sugawara Akitada
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    Rashomon Gate: A Mystery of Ancient Japan Featuring Sugawara Akitada
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    Rashomon Gate: A Mystery of Ancient Japan Featuring Sugawara Akitada

    Written by I. J. Parker

    Narrated by Roy Vongtama

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    A riveting historical mystery set amid the exquisite ritual and refined treachery of eleventh-century Japan.

    Sugawara Akitada is the son of impoverished nobility toiling at a low-level job in the Ministry of Justice. When an old friend, Professor Hirata, asks him to investigate a colleague's blackmail, Akitada takes leave of his stultifying job for a temporary post at the Imperial University. There he finds gossip and rivalry abounding. A young girl is murdered. An old man mysteriously vanishes, and the Emperor declares it a miracle. Plunging into a labyrinth of conspiracy among the court's most esteemed nobles, Akitada must step carefully while gathering clues to the puzzle before him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2008
    ISBN9781415955413
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    Rashomon Gate: A Mystery of Ancient Japan Featuring Sugawara Akitada
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    I. J. Parker

    I. J. Parker, winner of the Shamus Award for "Akitada’s First Case," a short story published in 1999, lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She writes regularly for Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.

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