Kyotaro Nishimura
Kyotaro Nishimura 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.
Works in English translation
;Novel- The Mystery Train Disappears, trans. Gavin Frew
- The Isle of South Kamui and Other Stories, trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori
- ''The Kindly Blackmailer''
Awards
- 1965 – Edogawa Rampo Prize: Tenshi no Shōkon
- 1981 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: ''Tāminaru Satsujin Jiken''