People Who Eat Darkness
The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2012]
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 454 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, chronicles the 2000 disappearance, massive search, long investigation, and the even longer murder trial behind the gruesome murder case of Lucie Blackman in Japan.
Contents:
Prologue: life before death -- Part I: Lucie. The world the right way round -- Rules -- Long haul -- Part II: Tokyo. High touch town -- Geisha girl! (joke) -- Tokyo is the extreme land -- Part III: the search. Something terrible has happened -- Unintelligible speech -- The flickering light -- S & M -- The man-shaped hole -- Dignity of the police -- The palm trees by the sea -- Part IV: Obara. The weak and the strong -- George O'Hara -- Conquest play -- Carita -- In the cave -- Part V: justice. Ceremonies -- The whateverer -- Smyk -- Condolence -- The verdict -- Part VI: life after death. How Japanese -- What I really am.
Subjects:
Blackman, Lucie Jane, 1978-2000.
Obara, Joji -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Murder -- Investigation -- Japan -- Tokyo.
Young women -- Crimes against -- Japan -- Tokyo.
Blackman, Lucie Jane, 1978-2000.
Obara, Joji -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Murder -- Investigation -- Japan -- Tokyo.
Young women -- Crimes against -- Japan -- Tokyo.
ISBN:
9780374230593
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TRUE CRIME Par | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-452).