"As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a hist
Features 12 highly entertaining stories by Japan's leading authors of crime and detective fiction The authors include Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui, Ak
It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A f
The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex mor