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.
Gavin Frew (New York: Dembner Books, 1990)
ISBN0-942637-30-5
The Kindly Blackmailer (original title: Yasashii Kyōhakusha) ("Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan" anthology. Edited by
Ellery Queen. Rutland Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc. 1978.
ISBN0-8048-1254-3 pp 147–165)