Japanese Book Club Language Exchange Meetup: Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto

Join us for an exciting meetup where we combine language exchange with exploring literature. This event is perfect for language enthusiasts and bookworms looking to enhance their language skills while discussing fascinating books.

This month, we will be discussing Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto.

Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seichō Matsumoto’s masterpiece.

In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: The flush of the couple’s cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers’ suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.

今月は、松本清張著「点と線」を取り上げます。

九州博多付近の海岸で発生した、一見完璧に近い動機づけを持つ心中事件、その裏にひそむ恐るべき奸計！　汚職事件にからんだ複雑な背景と、殺害時刻に容疑者は北海道にいたという鉄壁のアリバイの前に立ちすくむ捜査陣……。列車時刻表を駆使したリアリスティックな状況設定で推理小説界に“社会派”の新風を吹きこみ、空前の推理小説ブームを呼んだ秀作。