Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen by Ellery Queen

Author:Ellery Queen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781462911578
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

KYOTARO NISHIMURA

The Kindly

Blackmailer

Kyotaro Nishimura quit his job as a public official to become a writer. While studying his new profession, he held odd jobs—truck driver, insurance salesman, private investigator, guard—all plot grist for his murder mill. In 1965 his Scar on the Angel won the 11th Edogawa Rampo Memorial Award.

A good short story should create a uniform impression throughout, and it should gradually build into breathless suspense and then settle in a satisfactory epilogue. Nishimura's "The Kindly Blackmailer, not only does this but also manages to outwit the reader with an unexpected turn. A barber shop is the locale—an interesting place for intrigue and an unlikely background for crime. . . .

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