Murder at the Black Cat Café In this delightfully illustrated picture

In this delightfully illustrated picture book for early readers

Streets that were once busy are deserted

confronts age-old systems of gender and power

unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money

The foregrounding of these attributes of the upper-middle class in our values system feeds into the marginalization of workers

Murder at the Black Cat Café In this delightfully illustrated pictureFROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS Nothing at The Black Cat Caf is as it seems. . . In order to solve this sensational stand alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal In post war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing The Black Cat Caf makes a gruesome discovery: the