{"product_id":"tokyo-express-a-novel","title":"Tokyo Express: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom “Japan's Agatha Christie” (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.\" —Paula Hawkins, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Girl on the Train\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple's cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers' suicide. But in the eyes of two men, Torigai Jutaro, a senior detective, and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow widely available in English for the first time, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTokyo Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory Locale:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTokyo and Hakata, Japan, 1950s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48028612853865,"sku":"9780593979044","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0559\/7623\/1017\/files\/Shopifybookimages-2026-09-09T142326.500.png?v=1788989025","url":"https:\/\/www.casitabooks.com\/products\/tokyo-express-a-novel","provider":"Casita Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}