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Shizuko Natsuki


Born
in Tokyo, Japan
December 21, 1938

Died
March 19, 2016

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Shizuko Natsuki (夏樹 静子) was born in Tokyo in 1938. She graduated from Keio University with a degree in English literature. She married in 1963 and moved to Fukuoka, where she has lived since that time with the exception of nine years spent in Nagoya. Natsuki is not only one of Japan’s best-selling mystery writers but also one of the most prolific. She has written more than eighty novels and short-story collections, and more than forty of her novels and stories have been made into films.

Natsuki published her first mystery novel, Tenshi ga kiete iku (the angel has gone), in 1970. The first of her novels to be translated into English was W no higeki (1982; Murder at Mount Fuji, 1984). Several of her short stories have been published in transla ...more

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Murder at Mt. Fuji
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The Third Lady
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The Obituary Arrives at Two...
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Innocent Journey
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Portal of the Wind
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Death from the Clouds
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