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I was keen to try some more Japanese mystery fiction after the fun I had reading The Little Sparrow Murders (1959) by Seishi Yokomizo a few weeks ago. Before diving into this book, it was interesting to learn that some aspects of it were 'partly based on' Konishi's 'own experience of caring for his father...
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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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| | 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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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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