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Author | Seichō Matsumoto |
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Original title | Ten to Sen (点と線) |
Language | Japanese |
Genre | Detective fiction |
Publication date | 1958 |
Publication place | Japan |
Points and Lines (Japanese: 点と線, Hepburn: Ten to Sen), is a novel by Seichō Matsumoto, published in 1958.[1] It was first translated into English by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum, published by Kodansha International in 1970.[2] A new translation by Jesse Kirkwood was released as Tokyo Express by Penguin Classics in 2022.[3] Points and Lines was Matsumoto's first published novel.[3]
Writing for World Literature Today, J. Madison Davis named it among the ten greatest crime novels of all time.[4]