The Dark Collaborations: Japanese Noir from Seichō Matsumoto and Yoshitarō Nomura
By Jake Hinkson
January 18, 2014One can’t really describe the Japanese mystery writer Seichō Matsumoto by comparing him to his English language equivalent because, in all the ways that matter, he has no equivalent. (The writer Wolcott Wheeler once described him as “one part Raymond Chandler, one part John Steinbeck, and one part Gore Vidal”—which should give some sense of…