Tokyo Express

Tokyo Express is an irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose. Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train, describes it as "a classic of postwar Japanese crime fiction."

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate; the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, indicating a lovers' suicide. However, 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 unravel the knot of a unique and calculated crime.

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece and one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.