Seicho Matsumoto

‘Tokyo Express is an irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose’ Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train ‘A classic of postwar Japanese crime fiction’ Financial Times ‘It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.’ In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies […]

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan’s master of mystery