Recommendations from our site
“It’s pretty dark and gruesome. It’s convoluted in a Christie-style way but quite distinctive. It’s one of those books which very consciously references the golden age traditions, the great detective, the various ideas of clueing and red herrings and the twists, the surprise solution at the end. So it falls within the tradition but it remakes it at the same time. Soji has been very, very successful at doing that.” Read more...
Martin Edwards, Literary Scholar
“This a crime mystery quite focused on tricks. It’s continually making readers use their brains.” Read more...
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
by Ross and Shika Mackenzie (translators) & Soji Shimada -
The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: Three Tales Featuring C. Auguste Dupin
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A Murder is Announced
by Agatha Christie -
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler -
Hangover Square
by Patrick Hamilton
