The Incense GameThe Incense Game
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Current format, Book, 2012, Ist edition, All copies in use.Japan, 1703. Three women in vividly colored robes kneel on the floor of a small house in the merchant district. The eldest woman lights a ball of incense and presents it to the two young sisters. Smoke tinged with the aroma of fruit, wood, musk, and spices fills the room and the incense game has begun. But it will not last, as a trembling earth begins to rock harder and faster, ripping through the city with terrifying force. The devastating earthquake has left the city of Edo in shambles - even the shogun's carefully regulated court is teetering on the brink of chaos. Sano Ichiro, Honorable Chamberlain and second-in-command to the shogun, is placed in charge of disaster relief and rebuilding - a daunting task, especially since the shogun expects to be restored with impossible speed. This is no time for a murder investigation. But when Sano discovers the bodies of the two young sisters buried beneath the rubble, he suspects that incense poisoning, not the earthquake, killled them. Worse yet, their father, a powerful nobleman, threatens to topple the vulnerable regime unless Sano agrees to track down his daughters' killer.With the help of his wife, Reiko, and his chief retainer, Hirata, Sano begins a secret investigation that jeopardizes his whole family.
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