![]() ![]() The books were wickedly clever, full of family secrets, false identities, forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelties and plenty of bizarre–and often surprisingly gruesome–murders. ![]() Which is to say that Kosuke is a nice guy a humble man, a bit of a loner, perhaps, and not always the best dressed, but an ace detective, a fitting sleuth who dives deep into his cases. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes, albeit without the raging ego or irritatingly smug sense of superiority. Yokomizo was a master of the impossible crime mystery, often refereed to as the “Japanese John Dickson Carr” for his inventive puzzle plots, and his detective, while no wimp, was definitely more along the lines of such masters of deduction as C. It won the inaugural Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948, and was filmed as Death at an Old Mansion in 1976, and remains, at this writing, one of only a few of Yokomizo’s mysteries to be translated into English. It’s a brainstomper of a locked room murder, taking place in a huge family mansion surrounded by thick snow, which many people regard as one of the best Japanese detective novels of all time. ![]() Arguably the most beloved Japanese detective of all time, Seishi Yokomizo’s K ŌSUKE KINDAICHI first appeared in The Honjin Murders, which was serialized in the magazine Housekifrom April to December 1946. ![]()
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