Tokyo Express

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide.

But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime . . .

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece — and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.

ISBN: 9780241439074 | Published: 1 November 2022 (first published 1958) | Trade paperback | 160 pages
ISBN: 9780241439081 | Published: 30 May 2023 | Paperback | 160 pages