“NEEDED.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
Setting: Tokyo, Japan
Number of Crimes (Titles in Series): 1
Description: The corpse of an unknown provincial is discovered under the rails of a train in a Tokyo station, and Detective Imanishi is assigned to the case.
Last Seen (Most recent title): Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Seicho Matsumoto a prolific writer of socially oriented detective and mystery fiction, debuted as an author after reaching the age of forty with the historically based Saigo Takamori Chits, 1950. Matsumoto made a name for himself as the writer of suspense novels that were accessible to all kinds of readership, but it was his historical novel The Ogura Diary Chronicles that earned him The 28th Akutagawa Prize, the Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
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