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Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) was one of Japan's most famous and best-loved mystery writers. He was born in Kobe and spent his childhood reading detective stories, before beginning to write stories of his own, the first of which was published in 1921. He went on to become an extremely prolific and popular author, best known for his Kosuke Kindaichi series, which ran to 77 books, many of which were adapted for stage and television in Japan. The Inugami Curse, Village of Eight Graves, Death on Gokumon Island, The Devil's Flute Murders and The Little Sparrow Murders are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
'Plenty of golden age ingredients... with a truly ingenious solution' - Guardian, Best New Crime Fiction 'Readers will delight in the blind turns, red herrings and dubious alibis... Ingenious and compelling' - Economist 'At once familiar and tantalisingly strange... Its an absolute pleasure to see his work translated at last in these beautifully produced English editions' - Sunday Times 'With a reputation in Japan to rival Agatha Christies, the master of ingenious plotting is finally on the case for anglophone readers' - Guardian 'The premise alone is dazzling [and] the solution to this mystery came as a complete surprise - exactly what I asked for' - New York Times
