Kosuke Kindaichi
Kosuke Kindaichi (金田一 耕助 Kindaichi Kōsuke) is a famous fictional Japanese detective created by Seishi Yokomizo, a renowned mystery novelist. His first case, The Honjin Murder Case, a novel of locked room murder in an old family, which many people regard as one of the best Japanese detective novels, was published in 1946.
Works in translation
The Inugami Clan (1951) is the only one novel of Kindaichi series to have been translated into English.
Two other novels are available in French translation.
- Le Village aux huit tombes (original title: Yatsuhaka Mura) (1951)
- La Ritournelle du démon (original title: Akuma no Temari Uta) (1959)
Cases
The Kosuke Kindaichi series consists of 77 cases.
- The Case of the Honjin Murder (本陣殺人事件 Honjin satsujin jiken, April 1946)
- Gokumon Island (獄門島 Gokumon-tō, January 1947 - October 1948)
- Bat and Slug (1947)
- The Case of the Black Cat Restaurant (1947)
- A Killer (1947–1948)
- Black Orchid Princess (1948)
- Woman Walking at Night (夜歩く Yoru aruku, 1948)
- The Village of Eight Graves (八つ墓村 Yatsuhaka Mura, March 1949 - March 1951)
- Death Mask (1949)
- The Inugami Clan (犬神家の一族 Inugami-ke no Ichizoku, January 1950 - May 1951)
- Mysterious Woman (1950)
- Under Hundred Suns (1951)
- Queen Bee (女王蜂 Joōbachi, June 1951 – May 1952)
- A Crow (1951)
- The Devil Comes and Plays His Flute (悪魔が来りて笛を吹く Akuma ga Kitari te Fue o Fuku, 1951-1953)
- Dead Man's Seat (novel) (1952)
- Lake of Mud (1953)
- Undying Butterfly (1953)
- Death Mask's Return (1953)
- The Bride in the Labyrinth (1954)
- Evil Man (1954)
- Garden of Demon (1954)
- Yurei Otoko (1954)
- Fallen Angel (1954)
- Mirage Island (novel) (1954)
- The Sleeping Bride (1954)
- Three Heads Tower (1955)
- Vampire Moth (1955)
- A Deadly Pond (1955)
- Head (1955)
- A Ghost in the Old Yard (1955)
- The Poisoned Arrow (1956)
- A Beautiful Waxwork (1956)
- Black Wing (1956)
- Death Angel's Arrow (1956)
- A Calendar of Witch (1956)
- A Cat in the Darkness (1956)
- Lady in the Dream (1956)
- The Seven Masks (1956)
- Tragedy at the House of Meiro (1956)
- Field of Beast (1956)
- Head of a Playing Cards Table (1957)
- Lady in the Mist (1957)
- A Lady During the Wartime (1957)
- Lady in the Mud (1957)
- Lady in the Suitcase (1957)
- Lady in the Mirror (1957)
- Lady in the Umbrella (1957)
- Lady in the Cell (1957)
- Murder at the Kagami Beach (1957)
- Mystery of the 13th Boat (1957)
- A Rhymes of a Devil's Ball (1957–1959)
- Beautiful Lady in the Jar (1957)
- Lady of the Fan (1957)
- Girl's Shadow Under the Door (1957)
- Demon's Birthday Festival (1958)
- Lady in the Cave (1958)
- Lady in the Coffin (1958)
- Cross of Fire (1958)
- Lady in the Red (1958)
- Lady in the Pupil (1958)
- Spade Queen (1958)
- Rose Villa (1958)
- A Demon Child (1958–1959)
- Inside a Perfume's Mind (1958)
- Villa in a Fog (1958)
- Human Face (novel) (1960)
- Female Leech (1960)
- Black and White (1960–1961)
- One Hundred Lips Song of Satan (1962)
- Lady in the Sundial (1962)
- The End of Hunting (1962)
- Black Tiger at Night (1963)
- Cat Mansion (1963)
- A Batman (1964)
- A Masked Party (1974)
- The House of Hanging on Hospital Slope (病院坂の首縊りの家 Byōin-zaka no Kubikukuri no Ie, December 1975)
- Demon's Island (1978–1980)
In popular culture
A profile of Kosuke appears at the end of the manga Case Closed Volume 6.
Hajime Kindaichi (金田一 一 Kindaichi Hajime), the main character of Kindaichi Case Files, is depicted as the grandson of Kosuke Kindaichi.
In the Lupin the Third Part IV episode "From Japan With Love", the celebrity detective Akechi Kousuke Holmes is partially named after Kosuke Kindaichi (as well as Kogoro Akechi and Sherlock Holmes).
References
External links
- Kindaichi Kosuke Museum - Fans Site (Japanese)