num_pages: 160
description: A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mystery.'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.
language: English
title: Points and Lines
titlecomplete: Points and Lines
characters: Yasuda Ryoko, Yasuda Tatsuo, Kasai, Ishida, Yaeko, Torigai Jutaro, Tomiko, Otoki, Mihara Kiichi
genres: Fiction, Asia, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Japan, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Japanese Literature, Crime
ratings_count: 8320
places: Japan
publisher: Kodansha