Tokyo Express

bySeicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator), Eleanor Matsuura (Read by)

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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, an old and shabby detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they will begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime...

A coiled mystery in the vein of Georges Simenon, Tokyo Express is Seicho Matsumoto's bestselling masterwork.

© Seicho Matsumoto 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

About Seicho Matsumoto

Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992) was one of Japan's most acclaimed and popular writers. Self-educated, he published his first novel when he was forty years old and his books, including Tokyo Express, Inspector Imanishi Investigates and The Little Black Book, became huge bestsellers that were made into movies and TV series. He pioneered the social school of detective fiction, exploring human psychology and Japanese post-war malaise through twisting, dark mysteries. He received the prestigious Akutagawa Literary Prize in 1950 and there is now a prize in Japan in his honour.

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