How locked-room mystery king Seishi Yokomizo broke into English at last

A Japanese village in 1937 is shocked by a gruesome murder – a newlywed couple found shut away in a room “soaked in the crimson of their own blood”, a bloody samurai sword thrust in the snow outside. Scruffy amateur sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi is called in: can he solve the locked-room mystery? Kindaichi, the creation of the revered Japanese detective novelist Seishi Yokomizo, made his first appearanc

[machida77]

密室ミステリーの王ってカーあたりが言われるなら分かるんだが

[gogatsu26]

むしろトリックじゃないところが見せ場

[prozorec]

locked-room mystery kingという認識はなかったなぁ。もちろんすべては読んでいないけれど、密室ものってそんなに多かった？

[kissenger8]

孫があなたのおじいさんの作品ぜんぶ読みましたかって聞かれてるの、おまえ横溝正史やぞ。無理やろ。って思うよなー

[tachisoba]

"editors were surprised to find that the Kindaichi mysteries had hardly been translated into English before"