The Master Key by by Masako Togawa, Simon Grove (Translator) is a 2017 by Pushkin Vertigo publication. This is a fresh, original novel, superbly crafted and riveting from start to finish. Manipulated by hidden strings, their actions and reactions lead to suicide, murder, and some final surprising revelations. The actors are a few of the present-day occupants of the K apartments-single, lovely, obsessed, neurotic-each life a novel in itself, told in a spare, unembellished style that never lapses into the sentimental. A second flashback tells of the kidnapping of four-year-old George Kraft, son of an American army officer and his Japanese wife. Then, flashback seven years to one of its occupants and her confederate-a man dressed in woman's clothes-as they bury a child's body in an unused communal bath beneath the building. In postwar Tokyo, the K Apartment House for ladies is about to be moved intact in a highly publicized engineering feat. James, Robert Barnard and other literate writers in the genre will welcome US publication of this prize-winning author's first work. She wrote more than thirty novels and was one of the most popular mystery writers in Japan, with many of her stories based on her own life experience.Fans of P.D. It was adapted for both TV and film, and nominated for the Naoki Prize. Her second novel, The Lady Killer, followed in 1963, becoming a bestseller. The story is set in the same apartment she grew up in with her mother. Masako Towaga began writing in 1961, backstage, between her stage appearances, and her first work The Master Key was published a year later, in 1962, for which she was awarded the prestigious Edogawa Rampo Prize. She wrote more than thirty novels and was one of the most popular mystery writers in Japan Masako Togawa (戸川昌子) was a Japanese novelist, Chanson singer-songwriter, actress, feminist, LGBTQ+ activist, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist and music educator.
Masako Togawa (戸川昌子) was a Japanese novelist, Chanson singer-songwriter, actress, feminist, LGBTQ+ activist, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist and music educator.
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