SACHINOSUKE TERADA‘s an op for the Kashu Detective Agency who lives and works the mean streets of modern-day Kanazawa, Ishikawa, in Japan. Sachinosuke has appeared in several novellas so far for local magazines, and creator Jiro Kimura is currently re-writing them for book publication.
We’re still waiting for an English translation, but Kimura has also created a Japanesee-American private eye, Joe Venice, who calls New York City home.
We’re still waiting for those to be translated, as well.
Jiro, who like Sachinosuke, hails from Kanazawa, is truly an “International Man of Mystery.” He has worked as a translator for over twenty years, and has been responsible for Japanese editions of books by Donald E. Westlake, Joseph Wambaugh, Roger L. Simon, Arthur Lyons, Mark Schorr, Gregory Mcdonald, Benjamin Schutz, Michael Collins, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller and a ton of others. He also reviews mystery fiction and reference books for Hayakawa’s Mystery Magazine and EQMM. He’s a member of MWA, PWA and MWJ (the Mystery Writers of Japan). He founded the Japanese chapter of the Maltese Falcon Society in 1982 and edited its newsletter, The Maltese Falcon Flyer, till 1988. Somehow, he also finds the time to run The Gumshoe Site.
