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Chargement... Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories: From Japan's Greatest Detective & Crime Writers (édition 2020)par Yasutaka Tsutsui (Auteur), Seichō Matsumoto (Auteur), Ellery Queen (Directeur de publication), Satoru Saito (Avant-propos)
Information sur l'oeuvreEllery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan par Ellery Queen (Editor)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Now re-issued as 'Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories' in 2020, these 12 deliciously cunning short stories from Japan were first published in 1978. There will be something here to suit every taste, and is the perfect book to have by your bed and read just one story a night. The characters and situations also makes this an interesting historical survey of Japanese society. Perfect for fans of classic crime fiction. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction." -- Otto Penzler, from 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 inspector, a tenacious journalist, and 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 killing, he 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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