Series

Detective Kosuke Kindaichi series in reading order

The Detective Kosuke Kindaichi series has 5 books.

Published between 1946 and 1959. The publication order differs from the reading order — both are below.

A bride's scream shatters a wedding night in a snow-bound manor, and by morning three bodies are found in locked rooms. Detective Kosuke Kindaichi arrives to untangle a case where every door was barred from within and every suspect has an alibi — the debut of Japan's most beloved literary detective.

All 5 books, in reading order

• 1. The Honjin Murders (1946) — Seishi Yokomizo / Louise Heal Kawai · 193 pages
• 2. The Village of Eight Graves (1950) — Seishi Yokomizo / Bryan Karetnyk · 352 pages
• 3. Death on Gokumon Island (1948) — Louise Heal Kawai / Seishi Yokomizo · 320 pages
• 4. The Devil's Flute Murders (1951) — Seishi Yokomizo / Jim Rion · 352 pages
• 5. The Little Sparrow Murders (1959) — Bryan Karetnyk / Seishi Yokomizo · 321 pages

Detective Kosuke Kindaichi in publication order

1. The Honjin Murders (1946) — Seishi Yokomizo / Louise Heal Kawai
2. Death on Gokumon Island (1948) — Louise Heal Kawai / Seishi Yokomizo
3. The Village of Eight Graves (1950) — Seishi Yokomizo / Bryan Karetnyk
4. The Devil's Flute Murders (1951) — Seishi Yokomizo / Jim Rion
5. The Little Sparrow Murders (1959) — Bryan Karetnyk / Seishi Yokomizo

All 5 books total 1,538 pages.

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