Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto Holiday ” —Mary E

” —Mary E

Nevertheless

his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus

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a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland

Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto Holiday ” —Mary EIn a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: The flush of the couples cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro 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