Points and Lines
1970 edition | |
| Author | Seichō Matsumoto |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ten to Sen (点と線) |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Detective fiction, Social mystery |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Publication place | Japan |
Points and Lines (Japanese: 点と線, Hepburn: Ten to Sen), is a novel by Seichō Matsumoto, published in 1958. It was first translated into English by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum, published by Kodansha International in 1970. A new translation by Jesse Kirkwood was released as Tokyo Express by Penguin Classics in 2022. Points and Lines was Matsumoto's first published novel.
Writing for World Literature Today, J. Madison Davis named it among the ten greatest crime novels of all time.
It was made into a movie by Toei Company in 1958 and a TV drama in 2007.