Book Subject Tag: Detective and mystery stories, Japanese
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The fiend with twenty faces
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The Edogawa Rampo reader
Selections.
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Japanese tales of mystery & imagination
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Murder in Japan : Japanese stories of crime and detection
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The black lizard ; and, Beast in the shadows
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In the miso soup
From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry. In the Miso Soup tells of Frank, an overweight American tourist who has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s sleazy nightlife.…
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The devil’s whisper
Slowly, the answers are uncovered by sixteen-year-old Mamoru, the nephew of the taxi driver currently being held by the police on charges of manslaughter for the death of the third victim. Determined to help his uncle, the enterprising young protagonist discovers that the girl killed by his uncle’s taxi had participated in a devious scam.