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Japan's modern crime literature: Centuries in the making

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Japan's modern crime literature: Centuries in the making

by Mark Schreiber

Japan boasts an impressively large and growing body of native-grown mystery fiction that dates back to the 1920s.

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'A Quiet Place': One of Japan's great crime writers turns pale

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Celebrated crime writer Seicho Matsumoto penned hundreds of works in his lifetime but so far only a handful have made it into English, which means the publication of a new novel should be cause for celebration. A Quiet Place, ...

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