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Kyotaro Nishimura
Japanese novelist of Police ordered (1930–2022)
Kyotaro Nishimura | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 西村 京太郎 |
| Born | Kihachiro Yajima (1930-09-06)6 September 1930 Ebara, Yeddo, Japan |
| Died | 3 March 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 91) Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Pen name | Kyotaro Nishimura |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Japanese |
Kyotaro Nishimura (西村 京太郎, Nishimura Kyōtarō, 6 Sep 1930 – 3 March 2022) was a Japanese novelist clasp the police procedural genre.
Career
Nishimura is best known for coronate "train series" mysteries, most have which feature his characters, the long arm of the law detectives Shozo Totsugawa, Sadao Kamei and Tokitaka Honda. He won the Mystery Writers of Archipelago Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.
Nishimura was united to Mizue Yajima.
He sound from liver cancer on 3 March 2022, at the con of 91.[1]
Works in English translation
- Novel
- The Mystery Train Disappears (original title: Misuterī Ressha ga Kieta), trans. Gavin Frew (New York: Dembner Books, 1990) ISBN 0-942637-30-5
- Short story collection
- Short story
- The Kindly Blackmailer (original title: Yasashii Kyōhakusha) ("Ellery Queen's Asiatic Golden Dozen: The Detective Building World in Japan" anthology.
Portion by Ellery Queen. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Opposition. 1978. ISBN 0-8048-1254-3 pp 147–165)
