Tokyo Express

<p><b>'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of <i>The Girl on the Train </i><br></b><br><b>'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, <i>The Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><i>'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'</i><br><br>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...<br><br>Now widely available in English for the first time, <i>Tokyo Express</i> is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.</p> <p><b>'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of <i>The Girl on the Train </i><br></b><br><b>'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, <i>The Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><i>'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'</i><br><br>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...<br><br>Now widely available in English for the first time, <i>Tokyo Express</i> is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.</p>