It is also the name of the celebrated character they created. The book features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito which places the stories within the context of Japanese society and modern Japanese literature.Įllery Queen was the pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, two cousins from Brooklyn who became America's most successful authors of crime and detective fiction in the 1930s and 1940s. Who is this enigmatic stranger?Įllery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories is a collection that is sure to delight lovers of great detective and crime fiction. "The Kindly Blackmailer" by Mystery Writers of Japan Award winner Kyotaro Nishimura: A man involved in a fatal hit-and-run is blackmailed by a mysterious witness."Devil of a Boy" by Edogawa Rampo Prize winner Seiichi Morimura: A schoolboy may still be very young but he is as sinister as the most hardened of criminals…or is someone else involved?.
"The Cooperative Defendant" by Akutagawa Prize winner Seicho Matsumoto: After a man confesses to a killing, he retracts his confession and accuses the detectives of coercion."Perfectly Lovely Ladies" by Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui: Eight women fight the high cost of living using violent means but will they get away with murder?.The thrilling stories in this volume include: Each story features an unusual crime and a complex set of clues investigated by a diverse and colorful cast of characters that includes a calculating inspector, a tenacious journalist, and a determined scientist. The legendary Ellery Queen selected these stories by award-winning Japanese authors from among many thousands published in postwar Japan. The 12 stories in this book will lead you through dramatic twists and unexpected turns. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction." - Otto Penzler, from Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery FictionĪ newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered-it's impossible but the truth is not so simple five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. "As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled.
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