The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Chapter Summary & Analysis - Book 1 Chapter 3: Malta Kano's Hat ● Sherbet Tone and Allen Ginsberg and the Crusaders (Pgs. 32- 45) Summary

Book 1 Chapter 3: Malta Kano's Hat ● Sherbet Tone and Allen Ginsberg and the Crusaders (Pgs. 32- 45) Summary

Kumiko tells Toru to expect a call from a woman by the name of Miss Kano and that he may need to meet with her regarding the missing cat, Noboru Wataya. Miss Kano calls back and apologizes profusely for her rudeness in disconnecting him. She then asks to meet Toru in the tearoom at the Pacific Hotel. Miss Kano informs Toru that she is thirty-one years old and that she will be wearing a red vinyl hat. When Miss Kano arrives, Toru sees that she is a beautiful woman wearing a finely tailored white jacket over a yellow silk blouse and of course the red vinyl hat. The woman hands him a business card on which only her name is printed: "Malta Kano." Just prior to departing, Malta Kano says that he will find the polka-dot tie, but it will not be in his house.