'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp elegant
prose' Paula Hawkins author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha
Christie' Laura Hackett The Sunday Times 'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not
lose heart.' In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata the bodies of a young and beautiful couple
are discovered. Stood in the coast's wind and cold the police see nothing to investigate: the
flush of the couple's cheeks speaks clearly of cyanide of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes
of two men Torigai Jutaro a senior detective and Kiichi Mihara a young gun from Tokyo
something is not quite right. Together they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and
calculated crime... Now widely available in English for the first time Tokyo Express is
celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish
puzzles ever written.
