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shereadsnovels.com
A three-fingered man. A room painted all in red. The eerie music of a Japanese koto. A katana - a sword - standing blade-first in the snow. These all form part of this classic murder mystery, originally published in Japanese in 1946 and now available from Pushkin Press in an English translation by Louise Heal... |
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tangledyarnsblog.wordpress.com
(Trans. Louise Heal Kawai. Originally published as Honjin satsujin jiken.) If I have any regrets so far in my journey through detective fiction, it is that I have mostly neglected the shin honkaku school of Japanese mystery writing even though I know from what little I've read of it that it is completely up my... |
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mysteryofmurder.wordpress.com
The 1940s were as much an opening door as they were a closing one as far as classical detection is concerned. Mysteries in the ilk of Agatha Christie's puzzlers and John Dickson Carr's miracle murders were slowly falling out of vogue. Save for a few writers who persisted in the craft, the old-school whodunit was... |
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perfectsatsujinjiken.blogspot.com
Despite several shortcomings, The Noh Mask Murder achieves an odd balance. Consequently, Takagi continues to fascinate as a flawed but evolving writer |
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