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Ingrid J. PARKER won the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story in 2000 for "Akitada's First Case," published in 1999. An Associate Professor of English and Foreign Languages (retired) at a Virginia university, Parker began research into11th century Japan because of a professional interest in that culture's literature. This led to the first Akitada short story, "Instruments of Murder," published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in October of 1997. Although Parker's multi-lingual background includes a little Japanese, research is done using translations and the help of scholars specializing in the period.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 943 ratings · 190 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Dragon Scroll (Sugawara Akitada, #1) 377 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Rashomon Gate (Sugawara Akitada, #2) 380 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Black Arrow (Sugawara Akitada, #3) 379 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Island of Exiles (Sugawara Akitada, #4) 389 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Hell Screen (Sugawara Akitada, #5) 391 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Convict's Sword (Sugawara Akitada, #6) 373 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Masuda Affair (Sugawara Akitada, #7) 371 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Fires of the Gods (Sugawara Akitada #8) 368 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dream of a Spring Night 384 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Unsheathed Swords (Hollow Reed series) 456 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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