Books by Soji Shimada
“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
Interviews where books by Soji Shimada were recommended
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The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: Three Tales Featuring C. Auguste Dupin
by Edgar Allan Poe -
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux -
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The Third Bullet and Other Stories
by John Dickson Carr -
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
by Agatha Christie -
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
by Ross and Shika Mackenzie (translators) & Soji Shimada
The Best Golden Age Mysteries, recommended by Martin Edwards
The Best Golden Age Mysteries, recommended by Martin Edwards
Partly as a response to the horrors of World War I, the 1920s and 30s saw a surge in the writing of whodunnits, a period often referred to as the ‘golden age’ of mystery writing. Here, Martin Edwards, one of the leading experts on the genre, picks out some key works, with a special focus on ‘locked room’ mysteries.
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Beast in the Shadows
by Edogawa Rampo & Ian Hughes (translator) -
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The Inugami Curse
by Seishi Yokomizo & Yumiko Yamazaki (translator) -
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Points and Lines
by Paul C. Blum and Makiko Yamamoto (translators) & Seicho Matsumoto -
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
by Ross and Shika Mackenzie (translators) & Soji Shimada -
5
All She Was Worth
by Alfred Birnbaum (translator) & Miyuki Miyabe
Best Classic Japanese Mysteries, recommended by On Nomoto
Best Classic Japanese Mysteries, recommended by On Nomoto
Crime novels are hugely popular in Japan, but English translations of Japanese mysteries not always easy to come by. As Pushkin Vertigo publishes translations of two novels by Seishi Yokomizo, one of Japan’s most famous mystery writers, his grandson, On Nomoto, talks us through the best classic Japanese mysteries of the last century.
