![]() ![]() ![]() A deep understanding of human nature drives this intricately plotted masterpiece of Japanese crime writing. Matsumoto's classic status is richly deserved * Daily Mail * Tense, enigmatic, thrillingly weird - a glorious find The debut novel of bestselling writer Seicho Matsumoto, first published in Japan in 1958 and never out of print, is an ingeniously plotted railway mystery * Guardian * An absolute corker of a read - so brilliantly shrouded in mystery that it was impossible to put it down A fiendishly complex case. * Financial Times, Summer Reads 2022 * A labyrinth of convincing alibis and false leads. Now, the fascinatingly detailed investigations of Inspector Torigai echo those of Simenon's Maigret in a pared-down narrative shot through with political critique. Tokyo Express is an irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose This classic of postwar Japanese crime fiction was banned in its day for its 'decadent western ideas'. ![]()
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