The Master Key
  • Published:
    Aug-1986
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    160
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The prize-winning debut mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers

The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over one hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old -- and in some cases, evil.

Their residence conceals a secret connecting the unsolved 1951 kidnapping of four-year-old George Kraft to the clandestine burial of a child's body in the basement bath-house. So, when news comes that the building must be moved to make way for a road-building project, more than one tenant waits with apprehension for the grisly revelation that will follow. Then the master key is lost, stolen and re-stolen -- and suddenly no-one feels safe.

Fiendish intrigue, double identity and an ingenious plot make this a thriller worthy of comparison with the work of P.D. James.
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-1986
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 014007645X
    • ISBN13: 9780140076455
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    • Nov-2017
    • Pushkin Vertigo
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1782273638
    • ISBN13: 9781782273639
    •  
    • Nov-2021
    • Steerforth Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1782277722
    • ISBN13: 9781782277729
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    • Jun-1985
    • W. Clement Stone, P M A Communications, Incorporat
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0396086845
    • ISBN13: 9780396086840
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    • Mar-2018
    • Steerforth Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1782273867
    • ISBN13: 9781782273868
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    • Mar-2018
    • Pushkin Vertigo
    • eBook (Kindle)



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