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While studying abroad in England, Natsume Soseki is tormented night after night by the voice of a ghost. Driven to desperation, he turns to Sherlock Holmes for help—only to find himself playing a key role in solving one of the detective's most baffling cases: a bizarre incident where a man placed under a terrifying curse turns into a mummy overnight!

Soji Shimada was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1948 and graduated from Musashino Art University. He made his debut in 1981 with The Tokyo Zodiac Murders and went on to become one of Japan’s most influential mystery writers. Widely regarded as the godfather of the shin honkaku movement that revived the classic fair-play puzzle mystery, he is best known for his Kiyoshi Mitarai and Takeshi Yoshiki series, and his books have sold over ten million copies. He received the Japan Mystery Literature Award in 2009. In English, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders and Murder in the Crooked House are published by Pushkin Vertigo, and The Tokyo Zodiac Murders was named one of The Guardian’s top ten locked-room mysteries. In Taiwan, the Soji Shimada Mystery Award, founded in his name, has launched a new generation of Chinese-language crime writers.

Soseki and the London Mummy Murders

Genre :

Fiction

Original Language :

Japanese

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Soseki and the London Mummy Murders

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