Seicho Matsumotos Black Gospel

In 1959 a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found strangled Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time