Alice Arisugawa
# Alice Arisugawa

Masahide Uehara (上原 正英, Uehara Masahide, born April 26, 1959), mainly known by his pseudonym Alice Arisugawa (有栖川有栖, Arisugawa Arisu), is a Japanese mystery writer. He is one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing and was the first president of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan from 2000 to 2005. He has also served as part of the selection committee for various literary awards, most notably the Ayukawa Tetsuya Award from 1996 to 1999 and Edogawa Rampo Prize from 2014 to 2017.

## Works in English translation

* The Moai Island Puzzle (original title: Kotō Pazuru), trans. Ho-Ling Wong (Locked Room International, 2016)

## Awards and nominations

* 1996 – Nominee for 49th Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Short Story: "Chocho ga Habataku"
* 2003 – 56th Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel: Mare Tetsudo no Nazo (The Malayan Railway Mystery)
* 2003 – Nominee for 3rd Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Mare Tetsudo no Nazo (The Malayan Railway Mystery)
* 2004 – Nominee for 4th Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Suisu-dokei no Nazo (The Swiss Watch Mystery)
* 2007 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (2007 Honkaku Mystery Best 10): Ran'a no Shima
* 2008 – 8th Honkaku Mystery Award for Best Fiction: Jookoku no Shiro (The Castle of the Queendom)
* 2008 – The Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year (2008 Honkaku Mystery Best 10): Jookoku no Shiro (The Castle of the Queendom)
* 2016 – 5th Osaka Honma Book Award: Maboroshi-zaka
* 2018 – 3rd Yoshikawa Eiji Collection Award: Himura Hideo Series
