Tokyo Express

After several long books and the last piece of rubbish that I read, I wanted some shorter, sharper books and Tokyo Express is a classic I’d never read. I thought it would be a bit true crimey… how can I sum it up… Meh. I mean it was published in 1958 and was deemed so decadent and unpatriotic that it was banned for a period. It starts with a couple found dead on a beach with what appeared to be a double unaliving using cyanide but the investigating officers are not convinced, and uncover links to government corruption as well as giving detailed, technical accounts of how the detectives unpick this puzzle using train timetables based on actual timetables from the 1957. I got a bit bored at that point. A solid read, but not exactly thrilling.