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Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."—The New York Times Book Review
"A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book's complex characterizations.Readers will agree that Matsumoto (1909–1992) deserves his reputation as Japan's Georges Simenon.-Publishers Weekly.
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai
2) The thief
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections. But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly when and where a murder will take place -- and they must hurry if they want to witness the murder, because it's later that very night! Sonomura has a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms, murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances,...
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 119
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Suddenly, a mysterious (kidnapping site) appeared on the Internet. The site published the names and photos of six shabby-looking men with the phrase, "We kidnapped the following people. Is this a case or a prank? And who are these men in the photos? The police, media, and netizens were skeptical, but the kidnapping site demanded a ransom from the "surprising party". An unprecedented (theatrical crime) involving the whole of Japan is about to begin!...
Author
Series
Reiko Himekawa novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally--his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this crime. At age twenty-nine, Reiko Himekawa of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Homicide Division is young to have been made lieutenant, particularly...
11) Li xiang guo
Author
Series
Publisher
Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文（繁體）
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 62
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文（繁體）
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 59
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文（繁體）
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a man about to leave his wife is found murdered and the wife has a too-convenient alibi that convinces a smitten lead detective of her innocence, Professor Manubu Yukawa is tapped by a concerned Kaoru Utsumi to solve a seemingly impossible case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pushkin Vertigo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years. Who murdered the artist Umezawa, raped and killed his daughter, and then chopped up the bodies of six others to create Azoth, the supreme woman? With maps, charts, and other illustrations, this story of magic and illusion, pieced together like a great stage tragedy, challenges the reader to unravel...
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 44
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文（繁體）
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 36
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文（繁體）
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012's critically acclaimed The Thief-another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity-and the powerful human instinct to resist evil. When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. "I created you to be a cancer...
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