tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post4808371182785130856..comments2024-03-27T06:07:20.345+01:00Comments on ボクの事件簿: Death Comes as the EndHo-Linghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-77239523629315036512015-02-08T04:42:32.257+01:002015-02-08T04:42:32.257+01:00In regard to A Traitor to Memory, I note from a lo...In regard to A Traitor to Memory, I note from a look at Amazon.com that while the paperback edition has 1006 pages, the word count per page is small. If you look at the hardcover edition, it is listed as having 736 pages, which is a few pages less than the Keeler. The Keeler also has very small type and the printing takes up the whole page with small margins. My copy of Emile Gaboriau' s Monsieur Lecoq has only 639 pages, even including the historical novel part The Honor of the Name; this last part isn't a detective novel.<br /><br />To be really accurate, you would need to take a word count rather than a page count, but right now it seems to me the winner is still the Keeler for English language books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-2729635660641813142015-02-06T09:09:47.269+01:002015-02-06T09:09:47.269+01:00@Anonymous:
The longest detective story in Engli... @Anonymous: <br /><br />The longest detective story in English is relative to what you define as a detective story. <br /><br />Elizabeth George wrote the thousand-page counting <i>A Traitor to Memory</i>, but I doubt any of us would consider the Thomas Lynley series (and other "literary thrillers") as neo-orthodox. You'll probably find quite a few lengthy stories among contemporary crime writers, but probably nothing even close to those lengthy Japanese mysteries. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-85684170628199853252015-02-05T14:57:26.144+01:002015-02-05T14:57:26.144+01:00Well, Japanese pockets are quite small, so that bu...Well, Japanese pockets are quite small, so that bumps the page-count a bit up (layout also differs per publisher/line), but there are plenty of Japanese detectives out there that have more than 741 pages. It's actually quite common for Japanese books to be split in multiple volumes.<br /><br />As for longest, it's probably a close fight between NIKAIDOU Reito's <a href="http://ho-lingnojikenbo.blogspot.nl/2011/04/what-night-for-knight.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Jinroujou no Kyoufu</i></a> (four pockets of 600~900 pages each), AYATSUJI Yukito's <a href="http://ho-lingnojikenbo.blogspot.nl/2013/07/deep-into-that-darkness-peering-long-i.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Ankokukan no Satsujin</i></a> (four volumes of 500~700 pages) or MIYABE Miyuki's <i>Mohouhan</i> (five volumes of 500~600 pages). They started publishing the last in English by the way, under the title <i>Puppet Master</i> (digital only).Ho-Linghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673330638260132388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031063966272508587.post-53274853948711562062015-02-05T04:25:21.242+01:002015-02-05T04:25:21.242+01:00The longest detective story written in English wit...The longest detective story written in English with which I am familiar is The Matilda Hunter Murder by the late great Harry Stephen Keeler. It clocks in at 741 closely-written pages. If I am correct that this is the longest for English, then these Japanese novelists have the English-writing detective novelists beaten to a frazzle for length.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com