![]() Mitchell is also the author of the mystery series featuring Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker and Alice Turnipseed.įires of London (the first in a series) takes place in wartime London as air raid warden Francis Bacon (not yet the celebrated painter he will become-his former nanny is his most avid collector) stumbles across a body in a park. The character of Hank Fukuda, a Nisei (first-generation American born to Japanese immigrant parents), is particularly well-drawn, and Mitchell has done a fine job in his depiction of the virulent anti-Asian hysteria of the times. The book (published in 1988) is hard to find, but it’s worth tracking down for its story of a murder in a Japanese-American internment camp that’s solved by an American MP and a Japanese-American criminologist internee. Black Dragon by Kirk Mitchellīlack Dragon is reminiscent of the history-based thrillers/mysteries of Joseph Kanon ( Los Alamos, The Good German). Here are nine very different views of death during wartime. ![]() Just because there’s a war going on doesn’t mean that death takes a holiday among the civilian population. ![]()
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