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by 松本清張

( 9 ratings, 5 reviews )

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[DeepL Translation - needs review] If you like mysteries, this is a masterpiece whose name is not unknown to you. The story takes place in the 1960s. The bodies of an assistant section chief of a certain ministry and a Japanese-style restaurant maid, who were in the middle of a corruption case, were found lying together on a rocky beach in Kashii, Fukuoka City. A juice bottle containing potassium cyanide was found on the body, and the police thought it was a common case of a murder-suicide. ...

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225

ISBN:

4163210903

ISBN13:

9784163210902

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(3.56/5)

9 ratings5 reviews

Entertainment(3/5)

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Language learning(4/5)

2 ratings

nikorusays

October 8, 2024

Language Learning

Entertainment

Repetitive start with a nice twist at the end

I found the first few chapters a bit boring because they were very repetitive, but later this toned down a little, or maybe I got used to it? Towards the end I even started to enjoy the detailed descriptions of the journeys and everything. If you have a hang for meticulous details regarding train schedules, this is the book for you!

Language-wise the first few chapters started a bit rough for me, with quite a few unknown / old-fashioned vocab items, but then it turned into dialogue-heavy territ

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latinramensays

June 19, 2022

Language Learning

Entertainment

Great introduction to the Japanese mystery literature. With little action and/or tension, it is a story with a somewhat repetitive but ingenious narration that is resolved in very small details. The reading can be rough due to the insistence on very detailed aspects such as the schedules of the train.

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catsays

September 22, 2024

Dreadfully repetitive to the point of sheer boredom. I relished every time we stopped talking about time tables or rehashing the same series of events over and over.

In some ways it reminded me of 七回死んだ男 which is another book that didn't seem to trust the readers could remember anything longer than 2 pages. The writing in this was better though, so I won't damn it to the same level.

I waffled between a two and three, but ultimately a three for me is something that I would recommend even if it

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Tim27says

February 29, 2024

The Louis Lamour of Japan

Matsumoto Seichou is the Louis Lamour of Japan, in the sense that he always goes to the location that he writes about in his books so he can describe it with such vivid detail that you see it in your imagination, something Lewis Lamour was good at too. I’m a sucker for a great mystery, and this book was good at using train timetables, and airplane schedules to figure out “who done it.” Entertaining an a great way to get familiar with Japanese geography.

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_Minossays

January 6, 2022

Whodunnit spanning the entire length of Japan, which lots of train timetables. And more train timetables. And lots of repetition of those train timetables so you don't forget.

Quite famous book i believe, but not my genre. No heart, just detective work, and pretty poor detective work at that. Ends exactly as you'd expect. Eh.

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