Nettet24. mar. 2024 · Seicho Matsumoto, Inspector Imanishi Investigates, tr. from the Japanese by Beth Cary, Soho Press, 2003 [1961]. Opening: The first train on the Keihin-Tohoku Line was scheduled to leave Kamata Station at 4:08 A.M. First published in 1961, Inspector Imanishi Investigates is often viewed as a police procedural.But although it … NettetVessel of Sand, published in English as Inspector Imanishi Investigates in 1989, sold over four million copies and became a movie box-office hit.

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Nettet1. jul. 2003 · Praise for Inspector Imanishi Investigates "A police procedural in the classic tradition of . . . P.D. James's Commander Dalgliesh." — The New York Times … NettetInspector Imanishi Investigates. A 1961 novel by Japanese mystery writer Seicho Matsumoto. The eponymous police officer begins investigating the murder of an unknown man found on the railroad tracks, and starting with almost no clues, he travels around Japan to make sense of the crime and find the killer. The novel also centers on a group … second brother meaning

Inspector Imanishi Investigates (Soho Crime) by Matsumoto

NettetA painter has vanished: normally an event of no importance, but Théo is the heir to a fortune, and so Inspector Gautier of the Sûreté is put on the case. Then a shady art dealer is murdered. A dealer who had acquired three paintings under dubious circumstances, from a minor artist who died in similarly dubious circumstances. NettetInspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied, and a series of coincidences lead him back to the case. NettetInspector Imanishi Investigates Paul Estaver, Seicho Matsumoto. Soho Press, $17.95 (313pp) ISBN 978-0-939149-25-4. Two families uneasily merged into one are the subject of this keenly observant ... second british invasion bands