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Nishimura, best known for his train mystery series featuring police detective Shozo Totsugawa, died of liver cancer on March 3, 2022.

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    Kyotaro Nishimura

    Japanese novelist of Police procedural (1930–2022)

    Kyotaro Nishimura

    Native name

    西村 京太郎

    BornKihachiro Yajima
    (1930-09-06)6 September 1930
    Ebara, Tokyo, Japan
    Died3 March 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 91)
    Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan
    Pen nameKyotaro Nishimura
    OccupationNovelist
    NationalityJapanese

    Kyotaro Nishimura (西村 京太郎, Nishimura Kyōtarō, 6 September 1930 – 3 March 2022) was a Japanese novelist in the police procedural genre.

    Career

    Nishimura is best known for his "train series" mysteries, most of which feature his characters, police detectives Shozo Totsugawa, Sadao Kamei and Tokitaka Honda. He won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award in 1981 for The Terminal Murder Case.

    Nishimura was married to Mizue Yajima.

    He died from liver cancer on 3 March 2022, at the age of 91.[1]

    Works in English translation

    Novel
    • The Mystery Train Disappears (original title: Misuterī Ressha ga Kieta), trans.

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