A fascinating vision of feudal life in Edo, in the company of one of the most beloved characters of popular literature in Japan. The stories of the detective Hanshichi, character inspired by Sherlock Holmes, became between 1840 and 1860, a time in which tradition and superstition of the hand and the son of the enemy of rational and unorthodox Hanshichi. The reader will attend a vibrant and colorful description of the city of Edo, will sneak into the mansions of the samurai who serve the public, in the public baths, in the modest houses or in the neighbors, going through innumerable workshops of artisans and modest restaurants where you can recharge your batteries to eat soba noodles or roasted eel. An exciting journey through the future city of Tokyo, from its most opulent and respectable neighborhoods to those most humble, inhabited by characters from the Hampa. Written with a good irony and a great sense of humor, Okamoto Kidō gets the reader with the cases of the astute inspector, transferring it to an exotic period even for the Japanese. An era plagued by apparitions, spells of foxes, kappa creatures and ghosts. Mysteries that the detective will face, armed only with wit and his skillful and incisive interrogations.