Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories - by Yasutaka Tsutsui & Seicho Matsumoto (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"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."</b> -- Otto Penzler, from <i>Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction</i> <p/>The 12 stories in this book will lead you through dramatic twists and unexpected turns--a newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel...but one of them is a murderer. <p/>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. <p/>The stories include: <ul><li><b>"Perfectly Lovely Ladies"</b> by Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui: Eight women fight the high cost of living using violent means but will they get away with murder?</li><li><b>"The Cooperative Defendant"</b> 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?</li><li><b>"Devil of a Boy</b> by Edogawa Ranpo 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?</li><li><b>"The Kindly Blackmailer" </b>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?</li></ul><br><i>Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories</i> is sure to delight lovers of great detective and crime fiction, as well as true crime podcasts and documentaries. The book features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito which helps place the stories in the context of Japanese society and modern Japanese literature.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ellery Queen</b> was the pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, two cousins from Brooklyn who became America's most successful authors of crime and detective fiction in the 1930s and 1940s. It is also the name of the celebrated character they created. From 1929 to 1971, Dannay and Lee published 36 novels under the Ellery Queen name, establishing the pair as the leading detective writers of the genre's golden age. They also collected stories and published several anthologies of detective fiction by other writers, including this one. <p/><b>Satoru Saito</b> is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Rutgers University. His areas of interest and specialization include modern and contemporary Japanese literature, Japanese film, and Japanese popular culture. He has published articles on Edogawa Ranpo and Tsubouchi Shoyo and the book <i>Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880-1930</i> which explores the critical role detective fiction played in the formation of modern Japanese literature.
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