Tokyo Express

By Seichō Matsumoto

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Tokyo Express is a 1958 crime novel by Seichō Matsumoto, one of Japan's best-known mystery writers, originally published as Ten to Sen and also known in English as Points and Lines. When a man and a woman are found dead on a beach in Fukuoka, the police assume a lovers' suicide, but a veteran detective and a young Tokyo inspector suspect murder connected to a corruption scandal and work to break an alibi built on train timetables. The Penguin edition is translated by Jesse Kirkwood.

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