本陣殺人事件

aka Honjin satsujin jiken

The Honjin Murders

Author

Seishi Yokomizo

Language

Japanese

Year

1946

Country

Japan

Genre

Novel

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The Honjin Murders is a mystery novel by Seishi Yokomizo. It was serialized in the magazine Houseki from April to December 1946, and won the first Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1948. It was filmed as Death at an Old Mansion in 1975. In 2019, it was translated into English for the first time by Louise Heal Kawai, and the translation was named by The Guardian as one of the best recent crime novels in 2019.