◾️The Man from Beijing, Volumes 1 & 2 (Set) by Yumiko Yanagisawa / Henning Mankell Price: ¥1140 (excluding tax) per volume Sogen Mystery Bunko, August 2016, First Edition Almost no noticeable damage, and overall in clean condition with little wear and tear for a used item. ◆Contents In the early hours of a freezing morning, a photographer who enters a Swedish village witnesses an unbelievable scene. Almost all the villagers have been massacred. Why a village of mostly elderly people? Birgitta, a female judge on vacation, learns that her deceased mother was from the village where the incident occurred, and heads to the scene alone. The case leads Birgitta to the other side of the world, and into the past. A monumental work by Henning Mankell, the emperor of Nordic mysteries, popular for his Inspector Wallander series. Birgitta, who visited the house where the murder took place, secretly took several notebooks. She saw the word "Nevada" in them. It was a land where a similar incident had occurred to the Swedish village. The diary was written in the 1860s by a supervisor at the construction site of the transcontinental railroad in America. 19th-century China, a poor village, the American frontier era, bustling with railroad construction, and modern China and Africa, which are rapidly developing. A masterpiece beyond mystery by Mankell, a prophet of the modern era. Foreign Mystery, Nordic Mystery, Mystery Novel