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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 28 (1975)

Mystery novel

Winners

1 people
Ikkou Shimizu しみず いっこう award

Domyaku Retto is a social suspense novel centered on a plot against the Shinkansen. Using transport infrastructure, a symbol of high growth, as its stage, it brings technology, institutions, and criminal planning into tense contact.

A major social suspense novel that threatens the Shinkansen, a symbol of modernization.

448 pages
social mysteryShinkansenhigh-growth Japancriminal plot