whodunit. Social mystery tends to contrast with the classical whodunit (本格派推理小説, honkakuha suiri shōsetsu), which focuses on solving puzzles and breaking...

Japanese detective fiction (推理小説, suiri shōsetsu, literally deductive reasoning fiction), is a popular genre of Japanese literature. When Western detective...

The Mystery Writers of Japan Awards (日本推理作家協会賞, Nihon Suiri Sakka Kyōkai Shō) are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan. They honor the...

time, while declaring himself to be one of the practitioners of honkaku-ha (本格派) or "orthodox school" of mystery fiction-writing, he wrote a trilogy on double-suicide...