13 Best crime books like Lending The Key To The Locked Room by Tokuya Higashigawa

Cover of Lending The Key To The Locked Room by Tokuya Higashigawa

Lending The Key To The Locked Room

By: Tokuya Higashigawa

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Ryuhei, a would-be film director, has just been dumped by his girl friend and his drunken threats t…

If you liked the crime plot in Lending The Key To The Locked Room by Tokuya Higashigawa , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edogawa Rampo, James B. Harris

1. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

By: Edogawa Rampo , James B. Harris

4.05

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's be… read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
  • crime
  • japan
"This “thing"

-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

"Why would a man become crazy if he entered a glass globe lined with a mirror? What in the name of the devil had he seen there? . . . Did he go made after taking a glance at himself reflected by a com…"

-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

2. The Moai Island Puzzle

By: Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong , Alice Arisugawa

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In his introduction, Soji Shimada, the doyen of the Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction k… read more

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3. The Borrowed

By: Chan Ho-Kei , Jeremy Tiang

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From award-winning Hong Kong writer Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowedtells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a Ho… read more

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4. The Lady Killer

By: Masako Togawa

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ichiro Honda is a good-looking computer expert who works in Tokyo, lives in a respectable hotel, an… read more

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Cover of The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo

5. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

Cover of Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo

6. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

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7. The Ginza Ghost

By: Keikichi Ōsaka

3.68

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction was re-launched in the early 1980s as shin honkak… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3) by Keigo Higashino

8. A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
"Takes all sorts to make a world. It's hard to generalize what's odd and what's not."

-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

"Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conc…"

-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

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9. A Man

By: Keiichirō Hirano

3.93

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A man follows another man’s trail of lies in a compelling psychological story about the search for … read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
  • japan
"He or she would need countless such anonymous acts of goodwill to safely enter the world and grow up. And he found it comforting to know that he had been able to offer one of them."

-Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

Cover of The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2) by Yukito Ayatsuji

10. The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

By: Yukito Ayatsuji

3.62

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Ever since a horrific car accident, Fujinuma Kiichi has lived a reclusive existence in the remote M… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
"A cold death mask worn by a living man."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"It sounded like the beating heart of the house."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"In the gloomy darkness, I revealed my accursed face."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

"He cursed the storm that had upset his peaceful life."

-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)

Cover of The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

11. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

12. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) by Seishi Yokomizo

13. The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.83

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The In… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
"The only person who had not touched the pickles was me! I never did like pickles..."

-Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)

Cover of The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

14. The Noh Mask Murder

By: Akimitsu Takagi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2) by Sōji Shimada

15. Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)

By: Sōji Shimada

3.55

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to… read more

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  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Murder at Shijinso by Masahiro Imamura

16. Murder at Shijinso

By: Masahiro Imamura

3.86

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Hamura Yuzuru, seorang mahasiswa tahun pertama, terpaksa ikut sebuah acara menginap di Vila Shijins… read more

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  • japan
Cover of The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo

17. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Death Within the Evil Eye by Masahiro Imamura

18. Death Within the Evil Eye

By: Masahiro Imamura

4.13

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

"... one of the cleverest riffs ever on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None...A tour de forc… read more

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Cover of Death in the House of Rain by 林斯諺

19. Death in the House of Rain

By: 林斯諺

3.50

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lin makes the tropes of golden age locked-room crime fiction feel fresh in this taut and ingenious… read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
Cover of Lending The Key To The Locked Room by Tokuya Higashigawa

20. Lending The Key To The Locked Room

By: Tokuya Higashigawa

3.72

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Ryuhei, a would-be film director, has just been dumped by his girl friend and his drunken threats t… read more

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  • mystery
  • asian literature
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of 春期限定いちごタルト事件 [Shunki Gentei Ichigo Taruto Jiken] by Honobu Yonezawa

21. 春期限定いちごタルト事件 [Shunki Gentei Ichigo Taruto Jiken]

By: Honobu Yonezawa

3.54

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

そしていつか摑むんだ、あの小市民の星を。小市民を目指す小鳩君と小山内さんのコミカル探偵物語小鳩くんと小佐内さんは、恋愛関係にも依存関係にもないが互恵関係にある高校1年生。きょうも2人は手に手を取って… read more

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16 Best mystery books like Lending The Key To The Locked Room by Tokuya Higashigawa

Transform Your Habits

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Edogawa Rampo , James B. Harris

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

Seishi Yokomizo

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Ginza Ghost

Keikichi Ōsaka

3.68

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25 Best fiction books like Death in the House of Rain by 林斯諺

Transform Your Habits

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

Otsuichi , Nathan Collins

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

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