Tokyo Express: Seicho Matsumoto

A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan`s master of mystery

`It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.`

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast`s wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple`s cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers` suicide. But 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 pick at 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 as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.