House of crooked walls
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The owner of the literary award No. 1 in Japan is “Japanese detective literature”.
Short list of the EDOGAWA RAMPO Prize.
A few tens of millions of books sold in Asia alone.
Japan, Christmas 1983. The rich industrialist Kojaburo Hamamoto gathered in his mansion of friends and acquaintances. The guests are struck by his house - a bizarre structure with many rooms, inclined floors and it is not clear where the leading stairs, with a “falling” high tower resembling Pisan. All of them admire the fantasy of the owner and are preparing to meet Christmas fun.
But their expectations are not destined to come true. Because in Christmas Eve in the house there is a murder. From a stab, a driver of one of the invited dies with a knife. Urgently called the police in complete confusion. After all, the murder was impossible to commit - all the circumstances and conditions against this. And no one has a motive ...
While the inspector and assistants are racking their heads, and the guests are in prostration, the second murder takes place in the house, even more incredible. Having contacted the superiors, stunned police officers learn that a person who is able to find a criminal is going to them. That this is an astrologer and fortuneteller from Tokyo Kiyoshi Mitarai. And that only he alone is able to figure out this breathtaking puzzle ...
You will have all the necessary keys. But can you find a guess before the detectives do it?
“God of riddles” - this is the name of Simad Suji in Japan. It was he who created Honkaku-Detective-a new genre, so popular in the country of the rising sun. A detective in which the reader is offered an honest intellectual game: to reveal the matter before the main character does.
Coji was the first to unite European classics with Japanese exotic, rationalism with mysticism.
Its great detective is not just a man of sharp mind and brilliant analytical abilities, like Sherlock Holmes, Erkul Poiro and Niro Wulf, but also an astrologer and predictor of fate.
Roman Suji belongs to the category of “must read” for every Japanophila self -respecting - it is literally saturated with interesting information about the history, culture and geography of Japan of the pre -war period
Short list of the EDOGAWA RAMPO Prize.
A few tens of millions of books sold in Asia alone.
Japan, Christmas 1983. The rich industrialist Kojaburo Hamamoto gathered in his mansion of friends and acquaintances. The guests are struck by his house - a bizarre structure with many rooms, inclined floors and it is not clear where the leading stairs, with a “falling” high tower resembling Pisan. All of them admire the fantasy of the owner and are preparing to meet Christmas fun.
But their expectations are not destined to come true. Because in Christmas Eve in the house there is a murder. From a stab, a driver of one of the invited dies with a knife. Urgently called the police in complete confusion. After all, the murder was impossible to commit - all the circumstances and conditions against this. And no one has a motive ...
While the inspector and assistants are racking their heads, and the guests are in prostration, the second murder takes place in the house, even more incredible. Having contacted the superiors, stunned police officers learn that a person who is able to find a criminal is going to them. That this is an astrologer and fortuneteller from Tokyo Kiyoshi Mitarai. And that only he alone is able to figure out this breathtaking puzzle ...
You will have all the necessary keys. But can you find a guess before the detectives do it?
“God of riddles” - this is the name of Simad Suji in Japan. It was he who created Honkaku-Detective-a new genre, so popular in the country of the rising sun. A detective in which the reader is offered an honest intellectual game: to reveal the matter before the main character does.
Coji was the first to unite European classics with Japanese exotic, rationalism with mysticism.
Its great detective is not just a man of sharp mind and brilliant analytical abilities, like Sherlock Holmes, Erkul Poiro and Niro Wulf, but also an astrologer and predictor of fate.
Roman Suji belongs to the category of “must read” for every Japanophila self -respecting - it is literally saturated with interesting information about the history, culture and geography of Japan of the pre -war period
Author:
Author:Suji Simada
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Detective Books
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-173246-2
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