MATSUMOTO, SEICHO — Inspector Imanishi Investigates

New York, Soho Press. 1994. (ISBN: 1569470197) Soft cover. Book, Classic of Japanese mystery fiction first published in 1961 under the title (Vessel of Sand) . "In the railroad yard of Tokyo's Kamata Station a disfigured corpse is found, its head pillowed on one rail, thighs across another, awaiting the departure of the first morning train to complete the grisly work. The solitary clue is a name: Kameda. It leads nowhere until from the Homicide Division comes Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a dogged, respected investigator, minimally educated, genteel, a gardener fond of haiku.". As New.