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Kindaichi, the creation of the revered Japanese detective novelist Seishi Yokomizo, made his first appearance in 1946, solving, with typical flair, the fiendish conundrum of The Honjin Murders.
That novel won Yokomizo the first Mystery Writers of Japan award in 1948.
But Japan’s answer to Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr – writers Yokomizo greatly admired – never made it to the UK.
But The Honjin Murders “is one of the greatest murder mysteries in Japanese crime-writing history, starring and introducing the country’s most famous fictional detective,” he says.
“Right after the war ended he said, ‘I can write whatever I want.’ It was his joy to write these stories.”The Honjin Murders was published in 1946.