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十津川警部 日本縦断長篇ベスト選集
外国人墓地を見て死ね
警視庁捜査一課の西本刑事は、相談があるという大学の同窓生篠塚美奈に会うため、横浜の外国人墓地に赴いた。だがそこで待っていたのは、女性の刺殺体だった。所持していた免許証から、被害者は篠塚美奈と判明。しかし、西本の知る美奈ではない。同姓同名の女性が偶然殺害されたのか?西本は現場となった墓地を調べ始める。一方、東京・新橋ではその墓地に眠る女性の親族が殺害され、十津川警部が出動。やがて巨額遺産の存在が浮上する。二つの事件の関係とは?殺された女の正体は?十津川の推理が冴える。
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Published October 1, 2012
About the author
Kyōtarō Nishimura
338 books18 followersKyotaro Nishimura (pseudonym of Kihachiro Yajima, born 6 September 1930 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese writer of mystery stories. Nishimura is best known for his "train series" mysteries. He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.
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September 29, 2018
Do you like your Kyôtarô Nishimura light, short and not very complicated? Then this is a perfect book for you. Keeping the traditional Nishimura traits: good atmosphere, interesting beginning, lots of conversation and a weak ending, "外国人墓地を見て死ね" keeps things entertaining enough, but is empty and vacuous, and loses its chance with a mystery that could have been so much better developed.
It all starts with a woman killed in a cemetery for foreigners in Yokohama. Nishimoto, one of Totsugawa underlings, is there because an old friend of his asked him to go there for some advice. He is thoroughly surprised when he sees that the person killed is identified as his friend, even though he knows she is not the dead person.
From that moment on, we get the advance-the-plot conversations, and good situations that are typical of Nishimura, but we also get the head-scratching flights of fancy that Totsugawa and other characters take to advance the plot, and an ending that is weaker than normally in his books, with so many loose ends that you could sew a sweater with them.
If you don't have much to do on a rainy afternoon, you can read this short book, but there are so many better options. This older Nishimura doesn't stack up with his earlier work. A weak effort.
The best: rhythm, characters, easy to read, it has some interesting moments
The worst: the plot jumps sideways to some surreal developments, the end is rushed, the mystery is pretty non-existent
Other options: well, other Nishimura novels like "終着駅殺人事件" or "消えたタンカー"; there are so many other writers too, like Ranpo Edogawa, Yusuke Kishi, Natsuo Kirino... Or leave Japan and go for some other options, like Scandinavian mysteries, Agatha Christie... Options, so many options...
4.5/10
(Original Japanese Version)
It all starts with a woman killed in a cemetery for foreigners in Yokohama. Nishimoto, one of Totsugawa underlings, is there because an old friend of his asked him to go there for some advice. He is thoroughly surprised when he sees that the person killed is identified as his friend, even though he knows she is not the dead person.
From that moment on, we get the advance-the-plot conversations, and good situations that are typical of Nishimura, but we also get the head-scratching flights of fancy that Totsugawa and other characters take to advance the plot, and an ending that is weaker than normally in his books, with so many loose ends that you could sew a sweater with them.
If you don't have much to do on a rainy afternoon, you can read this short book, but there are so many better options. This older Nishimura doesn't stack up with his earlier work. A weak effort.
The best: rhythm, characters, easy to read, it has some interesting moments
The worst: the plot jumps sideways to some surreal developments, the end is rushed, the mystery is pretty non-existent
Other options: well, other Nishimura novels like "終着駅殺人事件" or "消えたタンカー"; there are so many other writers too, like Ranpo Edogawa, Yusuke Kishi, Natsuo Kirino... Or leave Japan and go for some other options, like Scandinavian mysteries, Agatha Christie... Options, so many options...
4.5/10
(Original Japanese Version)
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