Points and Lines

Points and Lines (Japanese: 点と線, Hepburn: Ten to Sen), is a novel by Seichō Matsumoto, published in 1958.

[1] It was first translated into English by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum, published by Kodansha International in 1970.

[2] A new translation by Jesse Kirkwood was released as Tokyo Express by Penguin Classics in 2022.

[3] Writing for World Literature Today, J. Madison Davis named it among the ten greatest crime novels of all time.

[4] It was made into a movie by Toei Company in 1958[5] and a TV drama in 2007.