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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “soji shimada”
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  • The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

    by Soji Shimada ...
    Translated by Ross Mackenzie, Shika Mackenzie ...
    Series Book 4 - Pushkin Vertigo
    One of The Guardian’s “Top 10 Locked Room Mysteries”An amateur detective races to solve a decades-old murder mystery in this “bloody and bizarre” Japanese crime novel with a twist hailed as “one of the most original” (Daily Mail).Astrologer, fortune teller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years—in just one week.With the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Murder in the Crooked House

    by Soji Shimada ...
    Translated by Louise Heal Kawai ...
    Series Book 24 - Pushkin Vertigo
    A delightfully comic Japanese murder mystery “reminiscent of Agatha Christie” from a master of the genre—now available for the first time in English (Wall Street Journal)!“One of those locked-room head-bangers that invite . . . the reader to decipher the clues and solve a murder along with an all-seeing detective.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • One Love Chigusa

    by Soji Shimada ...
    Translated by David Warren ...
    Series Book 6 - Red Circle Minis
    A love story that explores the mechanics of the heart and humankind's inevitable evolution. One Love Chigusa by Soji Shimada, one of Japan's most famous authors, is a tale of obsessive love in a world where technology has crept into the very heart of humanity.The year is 2091 AD. A horrendous motorcycle accident leaves Xie Hoyu coming to terms with his new cybernetic body. Reconstructed from the ... Read more

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  • The Clock House Murders

    by Yukito Ayatsuji ...
    Translated by Ho-Ling Wong ...
    Series series The Bizarre House Mysteries
    **A deviously clever, locked room puzzle mystery from the celebrated Japanese author of The Decagon House Murders that’s perfect for fans of Uketsu’s Strange HousesBrilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi must save a team of paranormal investigators, trapped in an abandoned house, as they are picked off one-by-one!**Rumor has it that the mysterious Clock House—a remote mansion built by notorious ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Labyrinth House Murders

    by Yukito Ayatsuji ...
    Translated by Ho-Ling Wong ...
    Series Book 3 - The Bizarre House Mysteries
    ***Perfect for fans of Uketsu's Strange Pictures and Strange Houses*A twisty and ingenious stand-alone classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House MurdersCan the brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada solve the mystery of this bizarre house before all those trapped in its labyrinth are dead? Can you guess the solution before he does?**Miyagaki Yōtarō is one of Japan's most famed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Black Swan Mystery

    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    by Tetsuya Ayukawa ...
    Series series THE BLACK SWAN MYSTERY
    **THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan—for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto!Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest alibi deconstruction mysteries ever written**Early one morning, the owner of a local mill is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Noh Mask Murder

    by Akimitsu Takagi ...
    Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...
    **"A wickedly plotted mystery with a metafictional twist that feels far fresher than those of more contemporary versions with the same idea" — The New York TimesA bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizui mansion in this prizewinning classic Japanese mysteryThe 1st book in English from Akimitsu Takagi since his “Clever, kinky, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Mill House Murders

    The Classic Japanese Locked Room Mystery

    by Yukito Ayatsuji ...
    Translated by Ho-Ling Wong ...
    Series Book 2 - The Bizarre House Mysteries
    ***Perfect for fans of Uketsu's Strange Pictures and Strange Houses*“A psychological-mystical thriller built on Agatha Christie-type stopwatch sequences and John Dickson Carr-style locked-room conundrums… No one can accuse Mr. Ayatsuji of not sustaining the eerie mood of his strange story until its very last sentence.” — The Wall Street JournalA hugely enjoyable, page-turning classic Japanese ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Murder in the House of Omari

    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    by Taku Ashibe ...
    Series series Pushkin Vertigo
    **Use your powers of logic and deduction to solve this classic honkaku puzzler—the Japanese tradition of detective fiction—in this delicious twisty murder mystery!In Osaka, dark secrets haunt a wealthy merchant family throughout the first half of the 20th century . . .**In 1906, the young heir to the Omari family business climbs to the top of a Panorama and vanishes.In 1914, a fight between two ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • She Walks at Night

    by Seishi Yokomizo ...
    Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...
    Series series Detective Kindaichi Mysteries
    **FROM JAPAN’S GREATEST CRIME WRITER, author of the bestselling THE HONJIN MURDERS and MURDER AT THE BLACK CAT CAFEIconic detective Kosuke Kindaichi returns in this stand-alone murder mystery featuring a luxurious family estate beset by madness, scandal, and a terrifying curseA dissolute aristocratic family. A sleepwalking heiress. A headless corpse. Can Detective Kindaichi untangle this macabre ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Murder at the Black Cat Café

    by Seishi Yokomizo ...
    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    Series series Detective Kindaichi Mysteries
    **FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—the author of THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems. . .A faceless corpse is discovered near a notorious Tokyo brothel. Scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi plunges into the seedy backstreets to investigate.In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Man Who Died Seven Times

    by YASUHIKO NISHIZAWA ...
    Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...
    A subversively cozy Japanese murder mystery with an ingenious Groundhog Day twist: a teenager’s time-loop race to solve—and possibly prevent—his grandfather’s murder!Contemporary Japanese legend Yasuhiko Nishizawa makes his English-language debut with this slick, funny murder mystery which adds a sci-fi twist to an age-old setup: a murder in a wealthy family with an inheritance at stake.Hisataro, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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