With a plot as precise and meticulous as the railway timetables which form such a crucial part of the mystery, Matsumoto's classic whodunit of impossible murder in coastal Japan is reminiscent of Georges Simenon at his finest.
'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide.
But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.
Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.
ISBN:
9780241439081
Genre:
Classic crime
Publishing house:
Penguin Books
Binding:
Paperback
Author:
Seicho Matsumoto
Pages::
160
language:
English
Метка:
Ekspress
Weight, gr:
130
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