Not all Japanese crime fiction is superb, as Seishi Yokomizo's 'The Village of Eight Graves' shows
The sixth and final in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
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The sixth and final in a series of essays on crime fiction and literary trends.
If you're familiar with translations of Japanese fiction into English and other languages, you have probably heard of Edogawa Rampo. His real name was Taro Hirai (1894-1961), but most people remember him and his considerable body of literary works by his fiendishly clever nom de plume, which is pronounced to…
FICTION Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvatio
Last modified on Tue 27 Apr 2021 06.25 EDT After a day of joyous wedding celebrations, a bloodcurdling scream echoes into the night. The newlywed bride and groom are found dead in their bed, stabbed with a katana sword, now thrust into the snow outside. Their bedroom was locked from the inside, and there is no way the murderer could have broken in to do the deed, let alone escaped without leaving a trace. How was this impossible crime committed? The Honjin Murders This is the chilling opener of The Honjin Murders, a masterful detective novel by Japanese writer Seishi Yokomizo. First published...