First published in Japanese under the title Redi jōkā (レディ・ジョーカー)

Copyright © 1997 by Kaoru Takamura

English translation copyright © 2021 by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell

This English language edition is published in arrangement with

Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either

are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance

to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events,

or locales is entirely coincidental.

First English translation published in 2021 by

Soho Press, Inc.

227 W 17th Street

New York, NY 10011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Takamura, Kaoru, author.

Powell, Allison Markin, translator. | Iida, Marie, translator.

Title: Lady Joker / Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by

Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell. Other titles: Redi joka. English

Description: New York : Soho Crime, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020032998

ISBN 978-1-61695-701-8

eISBN 978-1-61695-702-5

Classification: LCC PL862.A42295 R4313 2021 | DDC 895.63/5—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020032998

Interior design by Janine Agro, Soho Press, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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