tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post678944829109631145..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Crooked House (1982) by Soji ShimadaTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-52457112055248099982019-12-08T23:51:51.108+01:002019-12-08T23:51:51.108+01:00Thank you. I will see if I can find some places to...Thank you. I will see if I can find some places to post. Could you suggest any other blogs?<br /> By the way, Pushkin Vertigo will release The Inugami Curse, also by Seishi Yokomizo, in February. However you should be aware that if you have already read The Inugami Clan, this is the same book (and same translation.)<br /> I can assure you that Pushkin plans to translate more Yokomizo in the future. And that I hope to be involved.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898639751496701685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-78875187015530625212019-12-04T11:32:46.514+01:002019-12-04T11:32:46.514+01:00I'm eagerly looking forward to the arrival of ...I'm eagerly looking forward to the arrival of my copy, Louise! Hopefully, this will not be the last translation of Yokomizo to appear in English. Unfortunately, I don't have a more suitable review/post up at the moment, but feel free to copy-spam your comment in those recent blog-posts. :) TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-27305915482335530732019-12-03T03:14:13.960+01:002019-12-03T03:14:13.960+01:00Hello! I hope this comment thread is still alive b...Hello! I hope this comment thread is still alive because I wanted to let you know that The Honjin Murders bu Seishi Yokomizo, featuring Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, (and translated by me, Louise Heal Kawai) is out December 5th from Pushkin Vertigo. (ALternatively is there a better place for me to post this comment?)<br /><br />ReplyDeleteLouisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898639751496701685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-71930042626320169222019-12-03T03:12:39.671+01:002019-12-03T03:12:39.671+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898639751496701685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-1657481350655923262019-02-20T02:21:59.413+01:002019-02-20T02:21:59.413+01:00Got it. Not that I have much influence, but I'...Got it. Not that I have much influence, but I'll definitely take a look.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898639751496701685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-37732337197938301392019-02-19T15:55:22.364+01:002019-02-19T15:55:22.364+01:00The locked room trick from The Kubikiri Cycle is a...The locked room trick from <i>The Kubikiri Cycle</i> is a good example of this. All it took was a headless body to pull it off. <br /><br />We really getting it this year! That's great news and you really did an amazing job on <i>Murder in the Crooked House</i>. I have been looking forward to it ever since reading <i>The Tokyo Zodiac Murders</i>. <br /><br />By the way, my fellow blogger, Ho-Ling, posted an incredible review, back in November, of Imamura Masahiro's <i><a href="https://ho-lingnojikenbo.blogspot.com/2018/11/crawling-with-zombies.html" rel="nofollow">Shijinsou no satsujin</a></i> (<i>The Murders in the Villa of the Dead</i>), which needs to be translated. A classic country house mystery in a village crawling with real zombies! Commercially, it's interesting because it can be billed as both a detective and horror novel to attract a wider audience. So I just wanted to bring it under your attention in the hope it might reach the higher ups of Vertigo. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-44752119016514659912019-02-19T13:44:34.353+01:002019-02-19T13:44:34.353+01:00And thank you for the shout-out Tom Cat. Translato...And thank you for the shout-out Tom Cat. Translators always appreciate a mention - we put a huge amount of work into getting those novels to sound just right #nametetranslator Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898639751496701685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-34442326060688351742019-02-19T13:37:08.501+01:002019-02-19T13:37:08.501+01:00JJ - less than a decade? You crack me up. You can ...JJ - less than a decade? You crack me up. You can expect the Honjin Murders (title change) by the end of the year.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898639751496701685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-77347425362124797352019-02-13T09:34:45.936+01:002019-02-13T09:34:45.936+01:00Sorry for the late response, but hope you are, or ...Sorry for the late response, but hope you are, or have, enjoyed the book. Thanks for letting us know about the Spanish translation, but I'm afraid most of us will have to wait until the English translation is released. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-13890056004808503202019-02-11T14:56:09.233+01:002019-02-11T14:56:09.233+01:00Currently reading this one as well, and very much ...Currently reading this one as well, and very much enjoying it. So much so that I didn't read the majority of your review, to remain as ignorant as possible of the progression. But I will come back to it! Anyway, my main reason for commenting here is to let your readers know that Murder in the Honjin is available in Spanish translation, for those who may have some facility in that language. It's under the title Asesinato en el honjin y otros relatos, trans. Kazumi Hasegawa, Quaterni 2017. Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031761315477065611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-16005701405350320072019-02-11T11:32:45.414+01:002019-02-11T11:32:45.414+01:00The Mitarai movie The Clockwork Current (made by t...The Mitarai movie The Clockwork Current (made by the same team of the TV special) has a problem of a bigger scale for Mitarai to solve, though that's more because it's about a few minor incidents that all connect in surprising ways. The ending is on... a weird scale. Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-9705703408550155722019-02-11T11:29:32.631+01:002019-02-11T11:29:32.631+01:00The Russian warship one is a relatively later work...The Russian warship one is a relatively later work and the focus of that work is really the mystery of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed she was Anastasia, not the warship one (which to be truthful, I doubt will really manage to impress you). Shimada's latest novel (the Santa Claus one I reviewed in... September?) is still relatively small in scale, but a bit closer to his WHAT!? earlier work.Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-74538029155239901472019-02-10T20:40:31.177+01:002019-02-10T20:40:31.177+01:00I forgot about that comment, but yeah, it's st...I forgot about that comment, but yeah, it's still only February. So here's hoping it comes out sometime this year.TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-87269970146774593282019-02-10T19:43:56.914+01:002019-02-10T19:43:56.914+01:00I remember John Pugmire's comment from
http:/...I remember John Pugmire's comment from<br /><br />http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-inugami-clan-1951-by-seishi-yokomizo.html?showComment=1526993877116#c2958778480317716381 <br /><br />that it was to be published this year. Hopefully he's right. I mean it's still February :)Yannishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03715425465328002763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-66291548894682618282019-02-10T16:52:19.711+01:002019-02-10T16:52:19.711+01:00She did a great job here and look forward to her t...She did a great job here and look forward to her translation of Seishi Yokomizo, which also has been long overdue. Only downside is that we probably have to wait another year for it to be published. <br /><br />Well, I can always reread Akimitsu Takagi's <i>The Tattoo Murder Case</i> to bridge the gap. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-23099372624179112982019-02-10T13:49:38.718+01:002019-02-10T13:49:38.718+01:00Well, this sounds delightful -- goddamn my TBR is ...Well, this sounds delightful -- goddamn my TBR is ridiculous and I may not get to it for a couple of months yet, but I'm super excited that you're so taken with this overall.<br /><br /><i>Hopefully, we don't have to wait another decade for the next translation to come around. I need my traditional Japanese mystery fix.</i><br /><br />Louise Heal Kawai, the translator of this, left a comment on my blog recently to the effect that she's currently working on a first translation of Seishi Yokomizo's Murder in the Honjin. Who knows when we'll see it, but I'm guessing in less than a decade -- very exciting!JJ @ The Invisible Eventhttps://theinvisibleevent.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-65866148413942372502019-02-10T13:01:08.185+01:002019-02-10T13:01:08.185+01:00Take your time and savor this one. You'll get ...Take your time and savor this one. You'll get a real treat when you reach the solution. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-79074988143902506912019-02-10T12:59:57.578+01:002019-02-10T12:59:57.578+01:00I believe I left a similar kind of comment on Ho-L...I believe I left a similar kind of comment on Ho-Ling's blog. Cover art has become a lost art in the West, which is unfortunate, but you can still find some exceptions here and there. Christopher Fowler's PCU series (U.K. hardcover editions) still has good, old-fashioned cover art that help set the mood of the story. I also loved most of the covers Rue Morgue Press used for their reprints (e.g. Kelley Roos' <i>The Frightened Stiff</i>)<br /><br />By the way, have you ever seen the covers of the reprints of Christie and Sayers from the 2000s? Dark, moody and minimalists covers all intended to make them look like the P.D. James or Elizabeth George of their era. They even used a larger than normal print in order to bloat the page-count, which made them look like large-print editions for the visually impaired. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-39994291339373421642019-02-10T12:55:16.178+01:002019-02-10T12:55:16.178+01:00That would actually be awesome to use in a movie a...That would actually be awesome to use in a movie adaptation! <br /><br />Is the one with impossible photograph of a Russian warship in the mountains part of his earlier or later work, because that one has always intrigued me. The only possible solution I could think, based on the plot description, is that the ship was brought to the mountain in pieces and put back together there. However, your review seems to hint at a different kind solution. Anyway, it sounds like one of those grand-scale problems that I would enjoy. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-28120887147122051782019-02-10T11:44:03.167+01:002019-02-10T11:44:03.167+01:00I have this and I am reading it, but unfortunately...I have this and I am reading it, but unfortunately it look's like I'm totally unmotivated for anything involving reading at the moment. I have an idea for the first murder but I'm probably wrong. <br /><br />Still nice to hear it's a good one! <br /><br />And I too hope that the next one will not take so long.<br /><br />Also having seen one Mitarai TV special, I understand what Ho-ling is talking about with the "Event interpretation". Yannishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03715425465328002763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-58976579836726493562019-02-10T11:05:20.931+01:002019-02-10T11:05:20.931+01:00i was SO happy the publisher decided to offer the ...i was SO happy the publisher decided to offer the book on kindle in europe (contrary to some ellery queen novel like the tragedy books which are on usa amazon >.>).<br /><br />i already left a comment in a similar vein on ho-ling's blog but i find japanese book covers so much more aesthetically pleasing compared to our western ones. in france you will find just a blank cover with the title and the author's name. in usa, publishers want their covers to be "grown up" and minimalist. but japanese? they go ALL OUT with their art. the japanese cover design for this book is nicer by a long shot compared to the american one. i am happy all my library is digital so i can add the covers i want through calibre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-72029255025338931802019-02-10T10:44:39.797+01:002019-02-10T10:44:39.797+01:00The one comment I heard about this book from a fel...The one comment I heard about this book from a fellow Mystery Club member that has for ever stuck with me, is that he wanted to see a film adaptation, with the camera POV inside [that thing]. It would be so cool!<br /><br />Most of the early Shimada works feature like this grand-scale problems (see also [shameless plugging] The Running Dead), but Shimada's more "recent" work (10+ years), or at least the ones I happened to read, seem to be far more mundane, and more built around interpretation of events etc.Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.com