The Samurai Detectives

Name: The Samurai Detectives
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ISBN: 9781405975803

Volume 3: The Man in the Mist

Shotaro Ikenami, Yui Kajita

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Penguin Books Ltd
01 September 2026

Crime & Mystery; Historical adventure; Fiction in translation

Series: The Samurai Detectives

THE SAMURAI DETECTIVES ARE BACK! THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING SERIES SET IN THE DARK HEART OF OLD JAPAN

Late spring settles over Edo with a deceptive gentleness - soft rain, a drifting haze, the first warmth of summer. But it is not only fallen blossom that gathers in the streets and woodland of Edo city - there too a terrible villainy lies hidden.

When the fearless swordswoman Mifuyu returns to her secluded lodging, her long-awaited repose is shattered- while she rests one day, a group of intruders slip into the house with violent intent. Their attack is as swift and silent as it is inexplicable - and it takes all of her skill to beat them back. Her friend and ally Daijiro soon discovers that the men were not common burglars, but mysterious ronin hunting a ghost from the house's past. What starts as a puzzling intrusion soon draws him and his father into a tangle of shifting identities, forgotten residents, and shadowy figures whose motives dissolve like mist in the morning light. . .

In The Man in the Mist, the brilliant third instalment in Shotaro Ikenami's masterful Samurai Detectives series, mystery, swordplay, and human drama entwine to illuminate the secrets of one the most bewitching periods in Japanese history.

By: Shotaro Ikenami
Translated by: Yui Kajita
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781405975803
ISBN 10: 1405975806
Series: The Samurai Detectives
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 September 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Shotaro Ikenami (Author) Shotaro Ikenami (1923 - 1990) was a bestselling Japanese author famed for his multi-million copy selling series of historical fiction novels. Over his lifetime, he won the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award and Naoki Award for popular literature. Over a dozen of his works were adapted for film and television, and his work remains exceptionally popular in Japan. Yui Kajita (Translator) Yui Kajita is a translator , illustrator and literary scholar, originally from Kyoto, Japan, and currently based in Germany.