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Blood on the tracks: the unsolved murder of the Japanese railway chief

David Peace mixes historical investigation with the techniques of fiction to examine what happened to Sadanori Shimoyama in Tokyo in 1949

David Peace in Italy in 2008. Credit: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images
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  • Tokyo Redux

    David Peace

    Faber, pp. 454, £16

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