Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan”s most famous and best-loved mystery writers. 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. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Honjin Murders, The Inugami Curse and Gokumon Island are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
11 Ebooks by Seishi Yokomizo
Seishi Yokomizo: The Honjin Murders
Japan’s greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the …
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English
€8.39
Seishi Yokomizo: The Inugami Curse
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no s …
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English
€8.39
Seishi Yokomizo: The Village of Eight Graves
‘With a reputation in Japan to rival Agatha Christie’s, the master of ingenious plotting is finally on the case for anglophone readers’ Guardian The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery …
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English
€8.39
Seishi Yokomizo: Death on Gokumon Island
Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the island's most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home afte …
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English
€7.19
Seishi Yokomizo: The Devil’s Flute Murders
Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead. When the family ga …
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English
€8.39
Seishi Yokomizo: Mord auf der Insel Gokumon
Der nächste Fall der erfolgreichen klassischen Krimiserie aus Japan. Der Privatermittler Kosuke Kindaichi reist auf die abgelegene Insel Gokumon, um einer der wichtigsten Familien dort eine tragische …
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German
€9.99
Seishi Yokomizo: Das Dorf der acht Gräber
»Yokomizo beweist, dass er in eine Reihe mit John Dickson Carr, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle und Agatha Christie gehört.« FAZ. Das tief in den nebelverhangenen Bergen gelegene Dorf der acht Gräber ve …
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German
€4.99
Seishi Yokomizo: The Little Sparrow Murders
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi’s invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi arri …
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English
€8.39
Seishi Yokomizo: Le village aux Huit Tombes
Perdu au coeur des montagnes embrumées, le village aux Huit Tombes tient son nom d’une légende sanglante : au XVIe siècle, huit samouraïs qui s’y étaient réfugiés et y avaient caché un trésor, ont ét …
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French
DRM
€20.49
Seishi Yokomizo: Der Inugami-Fluch
Der neue Fall des beliebtesten japanischen Krimiautors. Privatdetektiv Kosuke Kindaichi wird von einem der Anwälte eines kürzlich verstorbenen schwerreichen Seidenfabrikanten in einen abgelegenen Tei …
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German
€14.99
