Taku Ashibe

is a Japanese mystery writer. He is a member of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing.

Works in English translation

Novel

• Murder in the Red Chamber (original title: Kōrōmu no Satsujin), trans. Tyran C. Grillo (Kurodahan Press, 2012)
• Murder in the House of Omari (original title: Ōmarike Satsujin Jiken), trans. Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin Vertigo, 2025)

Short story

• "The Horror in the Kabuki Theatre" (original title: "Gohei Gekijō: Kabuki no Kuni Cthulhu Taiji"), trans. Sheryl Hogg (Lairs of the Hidden Gods 2: Inverted Kingdom, Kurodahan Press, 2005)
• "The Mummy and the Unicorn" (original title: "Miira to Unikōru"), trans. Nancy H. Ross (Strokes of Brush and Blade: Tales of the Samurai, Kurodahan Press, 2019)
• "The Dashing Joker" (original title: "Shikku-suru Jōkā"), trans. Yuko Shimada (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October, 2020)

Awards and nominations

• 1990 – Ayukawa Tetsuya Award for New Mystery Writers: Satsujin Kigeki no JÅ«san-nin (Thirteen in a Murder Comedy)
• 2002 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Guran Ginyōru Jō (The Castle of Grand Guignol)
• 2005 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Murder in the Red Chamber
• 2009 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Saiban'in Hōtei (The Lay Judge Court)
• 2011 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: KisōkyÅ« Satsujin Jiken
• 2013 – Nominee for Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: SuchÄ«mu Opera (Steam Opera)
• 2018 – Drunkard Bookseller's Award for: Kitan o Uru mise (The Shop that Sells Strange Tales)
• 2022 – Mystery Writers of Japan Award and Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Ōmarike Satsujin Jiken (The Ōmari Family Murder Case)

Bibliography

Detective Shunsaku Morie series

• Novels
• , 1990
• , 1995
• , 1996
• , 1997
• , 1998
• , 1999
• , 2000
• , 2000
• , 2001
• , 2001
• , 2006
• , 2008
• , 2010
• , 2011
• , 2012
• , 2013
• , 2014
• , 2016
• , 2020
• Short story collections
• , 1998
• , 2001
• , 2005
• , 2006
• , 2008
• , 2022

Modern City series

• , 1994 – Novel
• , 2009 – Short story collection

Jichikei tokuso series

• , 1998 – Short story collection
• , 2002 – Novel

Standalone mystery novels

• , 1994
• , 2004
• , 2004 (Murder in the Red Chamber, Kurodahan Press, 2012)
• , 2012
• , 2021
• , 2023

Short story collections

• , 2002
• , 2003
• , 2007
• (The Horror in the Kabuki Theatre)
• , 2000
• , 2002
• , 2006
• , 2007
• , 2011
• , 2013
• , 2013
• , 2017
• , 2017
• , 2019
• , 2020
• , 2022

Juvenile mystery novels

• Neo Detective Boys series
• , 2004
• , 2005
• , 2005
• , 2008
• , 2012
• , 2015

Historical fiction

• Vol.1, 1995
• Vol.2, 1996
• Vol.3, 1997
• , 2018

See also

• Golden Age of Detective Fiction#The "new traditionalist" movement in Japanese mystery writing
• Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
• Japanese detective fiction

References

External links

• Twitter
• Murder in the Red Chamber by Taku Ashibe, Kurodahan Press
• Review of Murder in the Red Chamber by David Cozy in The Japan Times