Ellery Queen\'s Japanese Mystery Stories: From Japan\'s Greatest Detective & Crime Writers - Ellery Queen

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Features 12 highly entertaining stories by Japan\'s leading authors of crime and detective fiction The authors include Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui, Akutagawa Prize winner Seicho Matsumoto, Edogawa Rampo Prize winner Seiichi Morimura and Mystery Writers of Japan Award winner Kyotaro Nishimura This collection was selected and edited by the legendary American crime writers who published over 36 novels and dozens of anthologies under the name Ellery Queen This anthology features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction. -- Otto Penzler, from Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered--it\'s impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer. The 12 stories in this book will lead you through dramatic twists and unexpected turns. The legendary Ellery Queen selected these stories by award-winning Japanese authors from among many thousands published in postwar Japan. Each story features an unusual crime and a complex set of clues investigated by a diverse and colorful cast of characters that includes a calculating inspector, a tenacious journalist, and a determined scientist. The thrilling stories in this volume include: Perfectly Lovely Ladies by Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui: Eight women fight the high cost of living using violent means but will they get away with murder?The Cooperative Defendant by Akutagawa Prize winner Seicho Matsumoto: After a man confesses to a killing, he retracts his confession and accuses the detectives of coercion. But who is right?Devil of a Boy by Edogawa Rampo Prize winner Seiichi Morimura: A schoolboy may still be very young but he is as sinister as the most hardened of criminals...or is someone else involved?The Kindly Blackmailer by Mystery Writers of Japan Award winner Kyotaro Nishimura: A man involved in a fatal hit-and-run is blackmailed by a mysterious witness. Who is this enigmatic stranger? Ellery Queen\'s Japanese Mystery Stories is a collection that is sure to delight lovers of gr