The Red-Headed Demon

In this seventh book in the "Samurai Detective" series, adopted samurai Seikei goes to the shogun's palace to see a demonstration of European medicine. Instead, he witnesses a murder when one of the foreigners dies of poisoning. Another foreigner wants to take away the young nephew of the dead man, but the boy is reluctant. He does not speak Japanese, so to keep him out of harm's way, Seikei's foster father tells Seikei to take the boy to the foreigners' base at Nagasaki. What seems like s simple task soon turns into a dangerous one, for many people seem to want the boy for their own peculiar purposes. Seikei has to use all his ingenuity and daring to carry out his mission and find the murderer as well.

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The Red-Headed Demon

In this seventh book in the "Samurai Detective" series, adopted samurai Seikei goes to the shogun's palace to see a demonstration of European medicine. Instead, he witnesses a murder when one of the foreigners dies of poisoning. Another foreigner wants to take away the young nephew of the dead man, but the boy is reluctant. He does not speak Japanese, so to keep him out of harm's way, Seikei's foster father tells Seikei to take the boy to the foreigners' base at Nagasaki. What seems like s simple task soon turns into a dangerous one, for many people seem to want the boy for their own peculiar purposes. Seikei has to use all his ingenuity and daring to carry out his mission and find the murderer as well.

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The Red-Headed Demon

The Red-Headed Demon

by Tom Hoobler
The Red-Headed Demon

The Red-Headed Demon

by Tom Hoobler

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Overview

In this seventh book in the "Samurai Detective" series, adopted samurai Seikei goes to the shogun's palace to see a demonstration of European medicine. Instead, he witnesses a murder when one of the foreigners dies of poisoning. Another foreigner wants to take away the young nephew of the dead man, but the boy is reluctant. He does not speak Japanese, so to keep him out of harm's way, Seikei's foster father tells Seikei to take the boy to the foreigners' base at Nagasaki. What seems like s simple task soon turns into a dangerous one, for many people seem to want the boy for their own peculiar purposes. Seikei has to use all his ingenuity and daring to carry out his mission and find the murderer as well.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940046178890
Publisher: Tom Hoobler
Publication date: 08/10/2014
Series: Inuit Myths and Legends , #6
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 230,260
File size: 362 KB
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

Tom Hoobler has published more than 90 books, most of them co-authored with his wife Dorothy. A majority of them were aimed at children or young adults. They won an Edgar for the Best Mystery of 2005 for their book, "In Darkness, Death," a mystery set in 18th-century Japan. Their latest book for adults was "The Crimes of Paris: a True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection." It is set in Paris between 1900 and 1914, and one of the crimes described in the book is the theft of the Mona Lisa.

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