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Snakeskin shamisen

When the winner of $500,000 from a novelty slot machine is stabbed to death, Mas Arai investigates the murder that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A.

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  • "When the winner of $500,000 from a novelty slot machine is stabbed to death, Mas Arai investigates the murder that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A."@en
  • "In youth-obsessed Los Angeles, maturity and reticence work in favor of the 70ish gardener Mas Arai, Hirahara's reluctant hero. Mas leaves a party held for a friend at a Hawaiian restaurant early, but when the guest of honor turns up dead, Mas has to return to answer questions about anything suspicious he might have observed. A broken shamisen (a stringed instrument similar to a banjo) found at the crime scene, he realizes, indicates that the seeds of the murder were sown in Okinawa during WWII."
  • "Features "Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win -- from a novelty slot machine! -- he's torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas's pal G.I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else's business, but at G.I.'s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime and suddenly finds himself caught up in a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A. a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder"--Publisher description."
  • "From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara's acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction's most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win'from a novelty slot machine!'he's torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas's pal G.I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else's business, but at G.I.'s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime'and suddenly finds himself caught up in a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A.'a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en

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  • "Snakeskin shamisen"
  • "Snakeskin shamisen"@en

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