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Mystery Writers of Japan Award にほんすいりさっかきょうかいしょう

Edition 7 (1954)

Mystery novel

Winners

3 people
Jojiro Okami おかみ じょうじろう encouragement award

Namari no Kobako is a long science-fiction and detective novel by Jojiro Okami. Combining scientific speculation with mystery plotting, it stands at the intersection of early Japanese science fiction and postwar detective fiction, and it received an encouragement award from the Mystery Writers of Japan.

The mystery sealed inside a small lead box links scientific imagination with detective reasoning.

376 pages
science fictiondetective fictionsciencemysterypostwar mystery
Hikawa Rou ひかわ ろう encouragement award

"The Water-Lily Lady" is a mystery story by Ro Hikawa with a strong fantastic atmosphere. Centered on a figure in whom beauty and unease coexist, it depicts the strange presence hidden beneath everyday life within the framework of detective fiction.

This representative prize-winning short story by Ro Hikawa brings fantasy and detection together.

451 pages
fantastic mysterythe uncannyfemale figuredetective fictionpostwar mystery
Saburo Washio わしお さぶろう encouragement award

Nadare is a detective story by Saburo Washio that received a newcomer encouragement award from the Mystery Writers of Japan. With a title suggesting a dangerous collapse, it can be placed among postwar detective stories built around tense developments.

A detective story in which the balance of events shifts at once, like snow giving way in an avalanche.

detective fictionpostwar mysterynewcomer encouragement awardincidenttensionSaburo Washio