Murder at Mount Fuji

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When American exchange student Jane Prescott is invited to ring in the new year at a luxurious mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji, she expects a holiday of champagne and mountain views. Instead, she finds herself inside a classic closed-circle mystery — a wealthy pharmaceutical dynasty, simmering resentments, and a body in the snow. The mountain, beautiful and impassive, provides the backdrop for a puzzle that requires both cultural and deductive navigation. Shizuko Natsuki, Japan's queen of crime fiction, constructs her mystery with the elegance of a tea ceremony — each element placed precisely, each revelation following an inevitable logic. The outsider perspective of Jane provides the reader's entry point into a world of Japanese haute-bourgeois intrigue that might otherwise remain opaque. A classic mystery from Japan's golden age of detective fiction — proof that murder at the foot of a volcano needs no additional drama to be compelling.