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For whom the bell tolls: tales of murder and madness on the fictional Gokumon Island

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Crime fiction: Three novels where we don’t see the solutions because of our blind spots

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What is the shin honkaku sub-genre of mystery? How did Japanese writer Soji Shimada make it popular?

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How a Japanese island mystery novel replicated the Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes brand of mystery

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How Keikichi Ōsaka blended crime with philosophical meditations on the puzzling nature of existence

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‘The Red Locked Room’: How Tetsuya Ayukawa unlocks locked room mysteries

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Can a detective novel study the evolution of a city through its history of crime and detection?

Oct 16, 2022 · 12:30 pm