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Keisuke Kusaka

クサカ ケイスケ

Kusaka Keisuke

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Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1940-01-21 (Wakayama Prefecture)
Died
2006-02-12 (Chiba City) age 66
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Mystery writer, Editorial reporter
Active Years
1975-2006

Education

Waseda University
Faculty of Commerce
Year of Graduation: 1962
Country: Japan

Awards

Edogawa Rampo Prize
1975
Work: The Butterflies Are Now...
Organization: Edogawa Rampo Prize Organization
Result: 受賞
Mystery Writers of Japan Award
1982
Work: The Dog Who Climbs a Tree and The Boy Who Calls a Nightingale
Organization: Mystery Writers of Japan
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Butterflies Are Now...

1975 Mystery

Winner of the Edogawa Rampo Prize.

MysteryDetective fiction

The Dog Who Climbs a Tree

1982 Mystery

One of the works awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award.

MysteryDetective fiction

The Boy Who Calls a Nightingale

1982 Mystery

One of the works awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award.

MysteryDetective fiction

Bibliography

  • The Butterflies Are Now...
  • I Have Nightmares Three Times
  • Revenge of the Flowers
  • The Folding Crane Knew
  • The Seabird's Tombstone
  • Legend of Blood-Colored Flowers
  • The Boy Who Calls a Nightingale
  • The Dog Who Climbs a Tree
  • Negative Alibi
  • The Lovers' Murderous Intent
  • The Tears of the Sinful Woman Are Blue: The Mysterious Fire at Okuhida Mountain Villa
  • The Murder Case of Yumeji Takehisa
  • The Accuser Leaps into Darkness
  • The Night UFO Came
  • Santoka: Murder of the Back Figure
  • Shoot Chaplin
  • The Woman of Chance
  • Kill Me
  • Aim for the Golden Locomotive
  • The Nogiku Grave Murder Case
  • The Mystery of 20 Seconds in the Locked Room
  • Dangerous Relationships
  • Is It Coincidence?
  • The Battlefield of the Gods
  • The 'Heaven's Sake' Murder Case
  • Kill Semyonov Twice
  • The Woman Killed by Takuboku
  • The Neighbor's Murderous Intent
  • Bury Gently
  • The Nameless Corpse
  • The Bottled Past
  • The Stolen Female Phantom Thief
  • The Too-Distant Destination - The 47th Summer of the Shimoyama Incident
  • The Locked Room: The Door of the Tenth Year
  • Crimson Poison: The Detective Tsujimura, the Medicine Seller

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Intermediate novel-like mysteryHistorical mystery
Recurring Motifs
Early Showa period historyMysteryDetective fiction

Health

  • Aspiration pneumonia
    Died due to aspiration pneumonia.

Legacy

Keisuke Kusaka contributed to the mystery fiction world as an Edogawa Rampo Prize winner and recipient of the Mystery Writers of Japan Award.