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Soji Shimada (島田 荘司, Shimada Sōji, born October 12, 1948) is a Japanese mystery writer. Born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
Complete order of Soji Shimada books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders is the debut mystery novel of Soji Shimada, a Japanese musician and writer on astrology who is best known as the author of over 100 mystery novels. Besides being Shimada's first novel and a best seller, it was nominated for the prestigious Edogawa Rampo Prize for mystery novels.
Soji Shimada showed a flare for writing crime fiction and detective stories from a very young age, and was already building up a fan base in primary school, where he would read his short stories to his classmates in their lunch breaks.
Dec 1, 1981 · The Tokyo Zodiac Murders. Sōji Shimada, Shika MacKenzie (Translator), Ross MacKenzie (Translation) 3.87. 8,730ratings1,420reviews. Shop this series. Rate this book. Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years.
Red Circle, the curated group of award-winning Japanese writers, has published an extensive interview in English with the prolific Japanese author Soji Shimada, the master of postmodern whodunnits who originally wanted to become a painter but turned instead to reinventing the art of mystery writing.
Sep 15, 2015 · One of The Guardian’s “Top 10 Locked Room Mysteries”. An amateur detective races to solve a decades-old murder mystery in this “bloody and bizarre” Japanese crime novel with a twist...
