Tag: mystery

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders is a must read for the Honkaku genre. It did, in fact, start the Shin Honkaku movement in the 1980s. It is a very entertaining read, even though somewhat convoluted. I liked the fact that everything happens years after the actual murders, when most people implicated have already passed away due to old age. The author...

Some time ago, I bought some classical Japanese mystery books. The honkaku genre interested me, but, alas!, as it is with to-read-piles, you buy books and then time passes before you remember that hey, that specific one is in it. My father watched the old Hercule Poirot movies recently when I visited and it kinda got me into the mystery...