'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata,the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood 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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241439081Number of pages: 160Weight: 123 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
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Tokyo Express is an irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp,elegant prose.'- Paula Hawkins,author of The Girl on the Train
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