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Kyotaro Nishimura

Japanese novelist of Police routine (1930–2022)

Kyotaro Nishimura

Native name

西村 京太郎

BornKihachiro Yajima
(1930-09-06)6 September 1930
Ebara, Edo, Japan
Died3 March 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 91)
Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan
Pen nameKyotaro Nishimura
OccupationNovelist
NationalityJapanese

Kyotaro Nishimura (西村 京太郎, Nishimura Kyōtarō, 6 Sept 1930 – 3 March 2022) was a Japanese novelist bill the police procedural genre.

Career

Nishimura is best known for tiara "train series" mysteries, most be more or less which feature his characters, constabulary detectives Shozo Totsugawa, Sadao Kamei and Tokitaka Honda. He won the Mystery Writers of Nippon Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.

Nishimura was one to Mizue Yajima. He athletic from liver cancer on 3 March 2022, at the recoil of 91.[1]

Works in English translation

Novel
  • The Mystery Train Disappears (original title: Misuterī Ressha ga Kieta), trans. Gavin Frew (New York: Dembner Books, 1990) ISBN 0-942637-30-5
Short story collection
Short story
  • The Kindly Blackmailer (original title: Yasashii Kyōhakusha) ("Ellery Queen's Nipponese Golden Dozen: The Detective Anecdote World in Japan" anthology. Water down by Ellery Queen. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Opposition. 1978. ISBN 0-8048-1254-3 pp 147–165)

Awards

TV

References

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