Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan\'s most famous and best-loved mystery writers.
Seishi Yokomizo\'s The Inugami Curse is also available from Pushkin Vertigo, while Gokumon Island is forthcoming..
It won the first Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948 but has never been translated into English, until now.
The Honjin Murders is the first Kosuke Kindaichi story, and regarded as one of Japan\'s great mystery novels.
He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, selling more than 55 million copies and spawning many stage and television adaptations.
He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921.
Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan\'s most famous and best-loved mystery writers
