· Keikichi Ōsaka's The Ginza Ghost. The Ginza Ghost is a collection of short stories by Keikichi Ōsaka (), translated by Ho-Ling Wong and published by Locked Room International in The stories were originally published between and Now I’m totally new to the world of honkaku (Japanese orthodox mystery stories) so you’ll have to forgive me if I display my ignorance of Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · The Ginza Ghost by Keikichi Ōsaka My rating: 4 of 5 stars Keikichi Osaka () was born too late. He wrote his first detective story in (published thanks to the help of established detective author Koga Saburo), but in Japan entered the war and society started frowning upon Western-style detective stories as www.doorway.ru: Ad Blankestijn. · This time, we all get to share in an obscure and talented author with Keikichi Osaka’s The Ginza Ghost. The opening by Taku Ashibe gives a good summary of the life and works of Osaka, from his first stories to his sadly premature death during World War www.doorway.ru: The Dark One.
His work has since then gathered much praise, and The Ginza Ghost contains a special selection comprised of twelve of his best tales: ten impossible crimes stories, plus two extra (non-impossible) stories that are commonly considered to rank among the best he had ever written. Mystery author Taku ASHIBE was so kind to write an informative. A Ginza Ghost. [You may want to check the warning on this blog's translations.] This a translation of a short detective story by 大阪圭吉 (OOSAKA Keikichi, ), first published in the Japanese magazine Shinseinen (新青年) in I've called it "A Ginza Ghost", but you might prefer "The Ginza Ghost"; there's no article in the. The Ginza Ghost is a collection of short stories by the sadly short-lived writer, Keikichi Osaka, an important early figure in the honkaku style, of whom a brief biography is given in the introduction. Summary The stories included are: The Hangman in the Department Store - an employee of the store is strangled, oddly wounded.
Keikichi Ōsaka's The Ginza Ghost. The Ginza Ghost is a collection of short stories by Keikichi Ōsaka (), translated by Ho-Ling Wong and published by Locked Room International in The stories were originally published between and Now I’m totally new to the world of honkaku (Japanese orthodox mystery stories) so you’ll have to forgive me if I display my ignorance of the genre. The Ginza Ghost Keikichi Osaka, trans. from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong. Locked Room International, $ trade paper (p) ISBN Buy this book. The Ginza Ghost is a collection of twelve of his best stories, almost all impossible crimes. Although the solutions are strictly fair-play, there is an unreal, almost hallucinatory quality to them. Osaka, who died tragically young, was an early pioneer and master of the genre, whose work is only now starting to be re-discovered.
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