Ellery Queen’s Japanese Mystery Stories: From Japan’s Greate – 9784805315521 – Buku Ori Periplus

Cover Material: Hardcover
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Publish Date : 2020-08-04
Author: Tsutsui, Yasutaka
ISBN-13 : 9784805315521
English
Pages : 288

Description :

“As an anthologistEllery Queen is without peerhis taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short storyQueen isagaina historical personage. IndeedEllery Queen clearly isafter Poethe most important American in mystery fiction.”–Otto Penzlerfrom Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction

A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered–it’s impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer.

The 12 stories in this book will lead you through dramatic twists and unexpected turns. The legendary Ellery Queen selected these stories by award-winning Japanese authors from among many thousands published in postwar Japan. Each story features an unusual crime and a complex set of clues investigated by a diverse and colorful cast of characters that includes a calculating inspectora tenacious journalistand a determined scientist.

The thrilling stories in this volume include:

• “Perfectly Lovely Ladies” by Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui: Eight women fight the high cost of living using violent means but will they get away with murder?
• “The Cooperative Defendant” by Akutagawa Prize winner Seicho Matsumoto: After a man confesses to a killinghe retracts his confession and accuses the detectives of coercion. But who is right?
• “Devil of a Boy” by Edogawa Rampo Prize winner Seiichi Morimura: A schoolboy may still be very young but he is as sinister as the most hardened of criminals…or is someone else involved?
• “The Kindly Blackmailer” by Mystery Writers of Japan Award winner Kyotaro Nishimura: A man involved in a fatal hit-and-run is blackmailed by a mysterious witness. Who is this enigmatic stranger?

Ellery Queen’s Japanese Mystery Stories is a collection that is sure to delight lovers of great detective and crime fiction. The book features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito which places the stories within the context of Japanese society and modern Japanese literature.