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As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is found on the tracks. With only two leads - a distinctive accent and a single word, 'kameda' - senior inspector Imanishi Eitaro is called in to solve the puzzle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSetting aside his beloved bonsai and haikus, he must cross Japan in search of answers, from Osaka to Akita, accompanied by junior detective Yoshimura. At each new town, they encounter traces of the avant-garde Nouveau Group - young Tokyo artists who are bringing new ideas from the West. What to make of this modern collective? And how to stop another mysterious death occurring? 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Despite Eiko's known heart condition, which made her death somewhat expectable, the circumstances leave Tsuneo, a softly spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did his wife, usually shy and withdrawn, who only ventured out twice a week for haiku meetings, end up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighbourhood?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Tsuneo apologises to the boutique owner for the inconvenience caused by his wife's death, he discovers the nearby villa Tachibana, reputed as a meeting place for secret lovers. 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