Tokyo Express, Seichō Matsumot

''An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose'' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

''Matsumoto was Japan''s Agatha Christie'' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times

''It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.''

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast''s wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple''s cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide, of a lovers'' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime...

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto''s masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written.