Clay Boutwell

Twenty-five poems by Fukuda Chiyo-ni, one of the most loved haiku poets Japan has produced. She was born in 1703, was widowed young, became a Buddhist nun in her fifties, and wrote right up to her death poem at seventy-three. Her poems are small,...

An art critic is brutally murdered and the subject of his last review is suspected.Did the artist do it or was it one of the family members--all of whom had motive and opportunity?Join Carl Brooke and Captain Barnwell as they uncover the clues and...

Some characters in Japanese folklore are famous around the world, like Momotaro, the Peach Boy. But few people outside Japan know Hikoichi, and that is exactly why we love starting with him. His stories are still told across Kyushu, and they are pure...

Momotaro, the Peach Boy, is perhaps the most famous of all Japanese folktales: a boy born from a giant peach, raised by a loving old couple, who sets off to face the terrible oni with three brave companions, a dog, a monkey and a pheasant.This...

This audiobook brings you two of Japan's most beloved tales. The first is the story of a samurai no taller than your pinky finger: a tiny hero with a sewing needle for a sword, who sets out to make something of himself, saves a princess, and sees his...

This audiobook brings you two of Japan's most beloved folktales. The first is The Mouse Bride: a proud mouse couple are determined to marry their beautiful daughter to the greatest one in all the world. Their search takes them to the sun, the clouds,...

This audiobook brings you two of Japan's most beloved folktales. The first is The Cut-Tongue Sparrow: a gentle story of a kind old man, the little sparrow he loves, and a cruel act that sends him searching deep into the mountains, where kindness and...

Two of the most haunting tales in Japan. First, Yuki-Onna, the Snow Woman. A father and son, woodcutters both, are caught far from home by a blizzard and shelter for the night in a small hut. What comes through the door of that hut has been...

This volume is a little different from the rest of the series. Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl is not a Japanese folktale at all. It is Danish, first published in 1845, but it has been loved in Japan for well over a century, and...

Hikoichi is back. If you listened to Volume One, you already know him: the clever young man whose quick thinking always leaves somebody else scratching their head. This volume brings three more tales, and in the last of them Hikoichi steps aside for a...

Japan is full of strange creatures, and this series is a way to meet them in their own language.This first volume is about the kappa, the river creature almost every Japanese child can draw: green, about the size of a small child, a shell on its back,...

Japan is full of strange creatures, and this series is a way to meet them in their own language.This second volume is about the tengu, the long-nosed mountain spirit dressed as a wandering monk. He turns up on festival masks, in the phrase for someone...

Japan is full of strange creatures, and this series is a way to meet them in their own language.This third volume is about the oni: horns on his head, a huge body, an iron club in his hand, and a great fondness for sake. Japanese children know him...

A hidden identity. A mysterious priest. An oath left unfulfilled.Edison, the most proper member of the Agora Society, hides a past he thought was long buried. The sudden appearance of a strange priest, however, reveals secrets that demand Edison honor...

"On more than one occasion," said the captain, "input from the esteemed members of the Agora Society has aided our investigations. Furthermore, in at least one case, the Agora's contribution led directly to the apprehension of a murderer.""Hear,...

"There it was again. A moment, a flash, something indescribable and so quickly discarded that one would feel obliged to disbelieve one's own eyes had it not become inescapable by multiple repetition in my presence."Murder and intrigue abound. At the...

Reeling from the horrific pain of the loss of Anne, his wife, Carl Brooke must face his ultimate nemesis, Thomas Drake. Did Drake play a hand in Anne's death?Can Carl stop Drake before he harms his daughter, Mary?Join Carl Brooke and Captain Barnwell...

The loveliest creature on earth ... a dark secret ... and the felled crabapple treeAn anonymous telegram introduces Carl Brooke to both his future wife and her conflicted brother. Long buried secrets from the Civil War threaten to come to the...

Kidnapped! An honorable man has gone missing and his wife is not in the least helpful. The sheriff dithers and every day brings death closer to a reality.It is late 1865. After hostilities cease, the Agora Society, led by the indomitable Carl Brooke,...

A string of thefts ends in a grisly murder. Certain evidence leads Captain Barnwell to suspect a former thief, Rutherford Nordlinger as the culprit. Carl Brooke becomes personally involved as Nordlinger's guilt is questioned.--In the style of Arthur...