Tokyo Express de Matsumoto, Seicho - 1958

US: Penguin, 1958. Paperback. New. 'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times '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 c ouple are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold, the police see no thing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cy anide, 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 n ot quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and ca lculated 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.