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005			20231009193233.0
008			080214s2006 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2005056007
020			_a9780385339612
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
043			_an-us-ca
082	0	0	_aMYS HIR
100	1		_aHirahara, Naomi, 1962-
245	1	0	_aSnakeskin shamisen _c/ Naomi Hirahara
260			_aNew York _b: Delta Trade Paperbacks _c, 2006.
300			_a255 p. _c; 21 cm.
520	3		_a"Few things get Mas Arai more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a 500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he's torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas's pal G.I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else's business, but at G.I.'s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime ... and suddenly finds himself caught up in a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A. - a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder."--BOOK JACKET.
650			_aMurder _x-Investigations _v--Fiction
650			_aJapanese Americans _z-California _z-Los Angeles _v--Fiction
650		0	_aGardeners _x-Fiction
650			_aGamblers -- _vFiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c266242 _d266242