Seicho Matsumoto

Author

Seicho Matsumoto was one of Japan's most important and bestselling crime fiction authors, whose work revolutionised the genre in Japan. Born in 1909 in Kitakyushu, he pioneered the 'social school' of Japanese mystery fiction, which used crime stories to expose social injustice and corruption. Inspector Imanishi Investigates follows a... dogged police detective unravelling a seemingly random murder that leads to a conspiracy involving Japan's intellectual elite. The novel is a masterpiece of slow-burn procedural investigation and social criticism, widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese mystery novels. Matsumoto died in 1992. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers masterful Japanese crime fiction where the investigation reveals not just a criminal but the hidden corruption of an entire society. Read more Show less