The Demon in the Teahouse
- ISBN-10
- 0698119711
- ISBN-13
- 9780698119710
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Authors
- Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler
Description
In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.
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