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The Meiji Guillotine Murders - Futaro Yamada hermetic It is a brutal visionThe Meiji Guillotine Murders by Futaro Yamada, translated by Bryan Karetnyk ISBN 9781782278887 379 page paperback from Pushkin Vertigo *** An audacious puzzle mystery, woven into an exquisitely crafted historical tale. One of the most original works in the history of Japanese mystery writing Haruo Yuki, author of The Ark Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime