Detective Kosuke Kindaichi
La Ritournelle du démon (1959)
Akuma no temari uta
Sortie : mai 1990 (France). Roman
livre de Seishi Yokomizo
Résumé : A Onikobe, au mois d'août, c'est la fête des morts, avec son cortège de rites et de cérémonies. Un meurtre fait surgir les fantômes du passé, les légendes et les rivalités ancestrales. On reparle alors d'un crime qui n'a jamais été élucidé et l'on a tort de ne pas prêter attention aux histoires de... Voir plus
The Village of Eight Graves (1949)
Yatsuhakamura
Sortie : 1 mars 1949 (Japon). Roman, Version originale, Policier
livre de Seishi Yokomizo
Résumé : The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse — fiendish classics featuring investigator Kosuke Kindaichi. Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the... Voir plus
Death on Gokumon Island (1948)
Gokumontō
Sortie : 1 janvier 1948 (Japon). Roman, Version originale, Policier
livre de Seishi Yokomizo
Résumé : Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger – with his last words, the dying... Voir plus
The Honjin Murders (1946)
Honjin satsujin jiken
Sortie : 1946 (Japon). Roman, Policier, Version originale
livre de Seishi Yokomizo
Résumé : One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time. In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip... Voir plus
The Devil’s Flute Murders (1953)
Akuma ga kitarite fue wo fuku
Sortie : 1953 (Japon). Policier
livre de Seishi Yokomizo
Résumé : Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead. When the family gather for a divination to conjure the spirit of their departed patriarch, death visits the house once... Voir plus
The Inugami Curse (1951)
Inugamike no Ichizoku
Sortie : mai 1951 (Japon). Roman, Policier, Version originale
livre de Seishi Yokomizo
Résumé : In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons,... Voir plus
