Eiji Yoshikawa
was a Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist. He won the Kuniko Mukōda Prize in 1998 for his screenplay "Nemureru Mori" (A Sleeping Forest) and "Kekkon Zen'ya" (The Night before the Wedding). He also won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1997 for "Hasen no marisu" (Dotted-line Malice) and the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers in 2001 for "Shinku" (Crimson). The South Korean TV Network SBS broadcast a 16 Episode Drama "Alone in Love" adapted from one of his novels in 2006. He also wrote "Detective Conan - The Phantom of Baker Street".