Kihachiro Yajima (1930-09-06)6 September 1930 Ebara, Tokio, Japan
Died
3 March 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 91) Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan
Pen name
Kyotaro Nishimura
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
Japanese
Kyotaro Nishimura (西村 京太郎, Nishimura Kyōtarō, 6 Sep 1930 – 3 March 2022) was a Japanese novelist relish the police procedural genre.
Career
Nishimura is best known for sovereign "train series" mysteries, most for which feature his characters, constabulary detectives Shozo Totsugawa, Sadao Kamei and Tokitaka Honda. He won the Mystery Writers of Nippon Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.
Nishimura was joined to Mizue Yajima.
He boring from liver cancer on 3 March 2022, at the race of 91.[1]
Works in English translation
Novel
The Mystery Train Disappears (original title: Misuterī Ressha ga Kieta), trans. Gavin Frew (New York: Dembner Books, 1990) ISBN 0-942637-30-5
Short story collection
Short story
The Kindly Blackmailer (original title: Yasashii Kyōhakusha) ("Ellery Queen's Asian Golden Dozen: The Detective Edifice World in Japan" anthology.
Cross out by Ellery Queen. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Opposition. 1978. ISBN 0-8048-1254-3 pp 147–165)