Death of The Living Dead

THE LONG-AWAITED TRANSLATION
OF JAPAN’S BEST MYSTERY

"where the bonds of family continue even after death."

INTRO

In the midst of the 1980s, an unexplained phenomenon has arisen to terrify the United States: the dead are returning to life. In this chaos and confusion, a family of funeral directors in a small town in New England is locked in a struggle of succession to control the family business. When several relatives mysteriously die and then resurrect, the youngest member of the eccentric lot, a punk-rock teenager named Grin, must take the lead and solve the case. Classic dilemmas of mystery, from hidden motives to locked rooms, are given a ghoulish twist when the dead refuse to stay deceased for long. What begins as a puzzling mystery soon transforms into much more, with action, suspense, and brain-tickling philosophizing on questions of life and death. Aided by his companions and using his prodigious wits, will Grin be able to deduce the answers to this most unusual mystery?

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