[hiyer]

Not sure if it's Fair Play, but, apropos of Japanese detective fiction, I found the works of Seishi Yokomizo [1] absolutely amazing. His works are very atmospheric and quite dark, but - dare I say it - better than even Agatha Christie's IMO. Unfortunately, I could only find 4-5 of his books translated to English.

Keigo Hagashino's (the author of Devotion of Suspect X) Detective Kaga series is pretty good as well.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seishi_Yokomizo

[rcshubhadeep]

Absolutely love his Honjin Murders. And I may as well go ahead and read others also.

Thanks to everyone for suggesting all the interesting things here.

Cheers!