Crime and Fiction
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‘The Tattoo Murder’ injects local aesthetics into a post-World War II Japanese crime novel
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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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Not all Japanese crime fiction is superb, as Seishi Yokomizo’s ‘The Village of Eight Graves’ shows
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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?