松本清張
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松本 清張（まつもと せいちょう、1909年12月21日 [注釈 1]- 1992年8月4日）は、日本の小説家。 1953年に『或る「小倉日記」伝』で芥川賞を受賞。以降しばらく、歴史小説・現代小説の短編を中心に執筆した。1958年には『点と線』『眼の壁』を発表。これらの作品がベストセラーになり松本清張ブーム、社会派推理小説ブームを起こす。以後、『ゼロの焦点』『砂の器』などの作品もベストセラーになり、第二次世界大戦後の日本を代表する作家となる。その他、『かげろう絵図』などの時代小説を手がけているが、『古代史疑』などで日本古代史にも強い関心を示し、『火の路』などの小説作品に結実した。
Books
聞かなかった場所
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition, so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise leave Tsuneo perplexed. How did it come about that his wife, who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings, ended up dead in a small shop in a quiet residential Tokyo neighborhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death, he discovers the Hotel Tachibana nearby, a shady establishment known as a rendezvous for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life.
Points and lines
A couple are found dead on a desolate beach in a remote town North of Tokyo. The local authorities assume it is a double suicide. But is it? One piece of evidence, at first glance trivial, leads to an excillerating adventure. Inspector Toragay doggedly investigates a case that grows in complexity as the leads point to corruption and deceit at the highest levels--From amazon.com customer review.
Kong zhi cheng
Traditional Chinese edition of Ku no shiro, a masterpiece by Matsumoto Seicho. This unsolved mystery in the financial world is as close to the actual event as it gets. Caught in the frenzy of expansion into the oil sector in the early 1970's, a second generation Japanese American, passing himself as an upper class, got on board the QE2. A huge international joint venture, a bankruptcy and international intrigue led to the near collapse of the Japanese economy. Only Matsumoto has the spunk to expose the event.