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> Tag: Seishi Yokomizo

What an absolute waste of a great book cover.

Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo

December 23, 2022 by narfna 1 Comment

I think I might be done with this series. It’s really lost its charm. I might give it one more go if they translate a fifth book, but it will be by hard copy not by audio. You expect a certain amount of clashing cultural mores when you read a book that was written over fifty years before, but when I read Agatha Christie, for instance, it’s usually just small stuff you can roll your eyes at and be like, ugh you dumb people in […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: audiobooks, death on gokumon island, Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, japanese, Japanese mystery, mystery, narfna, Seishi Yokomizo, translated

narfna's CBR14 Review No:229 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: audiobooks, death on gokumon island, Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, japanese, Japanese mystery, mystery, narfna, Seishi Yokomizo, translated ·
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The village of hysterical women.

The Village of Eight Graves (Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) by Seishi Yokomizo

November 3, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Whaaaat the heck happened here. This was a mess. In fact, I had such a different reading experience with this third translated book in the Kosuke Kindaichi series that I kind of have to wonder if it was me and not the book, since presumably the English publisher chose to translate and publish this one third out of all the many, many available books in the series for a reason (and it’s not third in original publication order). I really wasn’t expecting to have such […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: audiobooks, japanese, Japanese mystery, mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the village of eight graves, translated

narfna's CBR14 Review No:180 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: audiobooks, japanese, Japanese mystery, mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the village of eight graves, translated ·
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Creatively murdering people for the money. #CBRBINGO – Dough

The Inugami Curse (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #2) by Seishi Yokomizo

August 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

These books continue to be really good mysteries, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to give one five stars because they’re so dated. Homophobia in this one in particular is a big issue. Fun fact: Apparently the image on the cover of this edition is fairly pervasive in Japanese culture, the way that Marilyn Monroe standing above the subway grate in her white dress is for Americans. This Seishi Yokomizo guy was KIND OF a big deal. (This book is I think his […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: audiobooks, cbr14bingo, Detective Fiction, Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, honkaku, Japanese literature, japanese puzzle mystery, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the inugami curse, whodunnits

narfna's CBR14 Review No:143 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: audiobooks, cbr14bingo, Detective Fiction, Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, honkaku, Japanese literature, japanese puzzle mystery, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the inugami curse, whodunnits ·
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“‘That man’s lying.’ With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI.”

The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

March 3, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

A clever, meta little Japanese murder mystery, first published in 1946, by a man who was apparently a huge fan of the western Golden Age mystery. This is the first book in the Kosuke Kindaichi series that he wrote dozens of novels for. Kindaichi-san is very unlike his British counterparts, Poirot, Wimsey, or even Marple. He’s very young, and a bit of a slob, but he has a mind for mysteries. Here, he is brought to the scene of a wedding where the bride and […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: audiobooks, classic Japanese mystery, Detective Fiction, Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, japanese, Japanese mystery, Louise Heal Kawai, murder mystery, mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the honjin murders, translated

narfna's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: audiobooks, classic Japanese mystery, Detective Fiction, Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, japanese, Japanese mystery, Louise Heal Kawai, murder mystery, mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the honjin murders, translated ·
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