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Yokomizo Seishi Mystery & Horror Grand Award よこみぞせいしみすてりあんどほらーたいしょう

Edition 19 (1999)

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Winners

4 people
Naoto Inoue award

Set in 1905 Shanghai, this historical suspense novel follows Japanese con man Osamu Izawa as he gets pulled into a scheme involving revolutionaries. A dangerous chain of deception begins when the plan turns on procuring weapons for the revolution.

Weapons for the revolution are to be procured by deception.

373 pages
ShanghaiXinhai Revolutionfraudrevolutionhistorical suspense
Kyosuke Higuchi honorable mention

A suspense novel in which an unidentified terrorist group seizes a nuclear fuel transport convoy inside a tunnel. Riot police, Self-Defense Forces, and media crews converge on the scene, setting off a tense standoff and negotiation. Based on the revised version of the commendation winner of the 19th Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Award.

433 pages
terrorismnuclear fuel transporthostage negotiationriot policesocial suspense
Kei Ogasawara encouragement award

Winner of the Encouragement Award at the 19th Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Award (1999). The author submitted under the pen name Ogasawara Amu, who later won the Grand Prize of the 20th edition under the name Ogasawara Kei with 'DZ'. This work was never published as a standalone book.

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Katsumi Ogawa nominee

A candidate work for the 19th Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Award. Submitted under the pen name Akihara Mutsuki. The work did not receive an award and no commercial publication has been confirmed. The author, Ogawa Katsumi, won the Grand Prize at the following 20th edition with his debut work 'Soretsu' (The Funeral Procession).

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