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The Coincidental Murders
“...a sticky, rotten spider’s web of tangled desires...”
In the summer of 1947 a group of bohemians gather at their friend’s villa in the mountains to escape the city heat. Sparks fly, daggers are drawn, and the bodies soon pile up. A self-effacing amateur detective is tasked with identifying the killer from a large cast of eccentric characters including blackmailers, poets, and sexual deviants. But are the murders connected, or purely coincidental?
Sakaguchi Ango’s outrageous whodunnit (original Furenzoku Satsujin Jiken, 不連続殺人事件) won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1949, the year after Seishi Yokomizo took the prize for ‘Honjin Satsujin Jiken’ (The Honjin Murders).
Alexis J Brown is a translator living in London.
In the summer of 1947 a group of bohemians gather at their friend’s villa in the mountains to escape the city heat. Sparks fly, daggers are drawn, and the bodies soon pile up. A self-effacing amateur detective is tasked with identifying the killer from a large cast of eccentric characters including blackmailers, poets, and sexual deviants. But are the murders connected, or purely coincidental?
Sakaguchi Ango’s outrageous whodunnit (original Furenzoku Satsujin Jiken, 不連続殺人事件) won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1949, the year after Seishi Yokomizo took the prize for ‘Honjin Satsujin Jiken’ (The Honjin Murders).
Alexis J Brown is a translator living in London.
202 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 15, 2024
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