Chastol

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I have 38 stories published in 6 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 50864 times and 4 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Charles R. Pringle

I was born in the northeast of England, but I have lived most of my life outside the UK. I basically grew up in Germany, and have lived in East Asia for the past 31 years—29 years in Japan and two years in China—where I have worked as a freelance copywriter and editor for a number of major Japanese companies. I’ve written hundreds of articles on Japan as well as two travel guides (one for Thomas Cook and one for Compass Maps) and a Japanese phrase guide (for Thomas Cook). I am also credited as the author of a book called Neo Shunga (Shunga is the term for Japanese erotic art of the Edo Period), but, in fact, I only wrote the introduction and the captions. The book consists mainly of woodblock prints. I recently published my first novel in English, Blinded by the Night (I have published one in Japanese), as an ebook. It is the first in a series featuring Akira Toyoda. I expect to finish the second novel in this series, provisionally titled Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by the end of the year.

http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Pringle/e/B00478TJLM

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/244554

My stories

Blinded by the Night - Chapter 3

On his way back to central Tokyo from the murder scene, Toyoda meets his friend, Detective Hara, and they end up in a tavern talking about their respective cases.

Blinded by the Night - Chapter 2

The first victim of a serial killer targeting young foreign hostesses in Tokyo is discovered, so Detective Inspector Akira Toyoda heads to a rundown area of the city to start the investigation.
Cherry

And the blind man plays the blues

This poem is dedicated to a blind busker who plays the erhu, a two-stringed vertical fiddle, outside a subway station in Shangha every evening of the year.

Treachery

When it comes to solving a problem, there's nobody with more imagination than a woman on the warpath.

Blinded by the Night - Chapter 1

A serial killer is targeting young foreign women working as hostesses in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. But Detective Inspector Akira Toyoda, who grew up in the north of England, is out to stop him.

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