Murder at the Black Cat CaféMurder at the Black Cat Café

"In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman passing the Black Cat Café makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a woman, lying in a hastily dug-out hole, with a dead black cat by her side. The woman's face is disfigured beyond recognition, and the cafeś black cat seems alive and well, so where did the two corpses come from, and why were they buried in the café's garden? As the legendary scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates, he realizes the cat's enigmatic madam, Oshima, has a past shrouded in secrecy, and what exactly is her relationship with the owner, Itoshima?"-Publisher description.