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Title The fires of the gods : a Sugawara Akitada mystery / I.J. Parker.
Author Parker, I. J. (Ingrid J.)
Publication Info. Sutton, Surrey : Severn House, 2011, c2010.
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Edition 1st world ed.
Description 247 p. ; 23 cm.
Series The Akitada series
Summary In 11th-century Japan, Sugawara Akitada's ailing wife is expecting a child, and when he loses his job and tries to confront the nobleman who is responsible for his dismissal, he ends up suspected of his murder. With no income and a growing family to support, Akitada desperately plunges into the investigation of this crime, aided by his faithful servant Tora, inadvertently placing not only his own life, but also the lives of his wife and child, in grave danger.
Subject Sugawara Akitada (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Public officers -- Fiction.
Arson investigation -- Japan -- Fiction.
Murder -- Japan -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- Fiction.
Genre Mystery fiction.
ISBN 9780727869890 (hbk.) : $28.95
0727869892 (hbk.)
9781847513212 (trade pbk.)
1847513212 (trade pbk.)
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