|
Kindaichi Kōsuke
is a fictional Japanese detective created by Seishi Yokomizo, a renowned mystery novelist. His first case, ''The Honjin Murders'', is a novel of a locked room murder in an old family house, which many people regard as one of the best Japanese detective novels, was published in 1946. Kindaichi went on to feature in another 76 novels, selling more than 55 million books and appearing in numerous film, television and stage adaptations. Novels The Kosuke Kindaichi series consists of 77 cases. * * *''Bat and Slug'' (1947) *''The Case of the Black Cat Restaurant'' (1947) *''A Killer'' (1947–1932) *''Black Orchid Princess'' (1948) * * *''Death Mask (novel), Death Mask'' (1949) * *''Mysterious Woman (novel), Mysterious Woman'' (1950) *''Under Hundred Suns'' (1951) * *''A Crow'' (1951) * *''Dead Man's Seat (novel)'' (1952) *''Lake of Mud'' (1953) *''Undying Butterfly'' (1953) *''Death Mask's Return'' (1953) *''The Bride in the Labyrinth'' (1954) *''Evil Man (novel), Evil Man'' (1954) *''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honjin Murders
is a mystery novel by Seishi Yokomizo. It was serialized in the magazine '' Houseki'' from April to December 1946, and won the first Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948. It was filmed as '' Death at an Old Mansion'' in 1975. In 2019, it was translated into English for the first time by Louise Heal Kawai, and the translation was named by ''The Guardian'' as one of the best recent crime novels in 2019. The novel introduces Kosuke Kindaichi, a popular fictional detective who featured in seventy-seven Yokomizo mysteries. In it, he solves a locked-room mystery murder that takes place in an isolated mansion (''honjin'') blanketed in snow. Yokomizo had read classic Western detective novels extensively, and the novel makes allusions to John Dickson Carr, Gaston Leroux, and others, with several mentions of Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room as an emblematic locked-room mystery. Though writing a noir and sometimes graphic murder mystery, Yokomizo worked within the tradition of lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |