It's a bit confusing when an author is called Guy Stanley but his card reads Stan Guy in English and Gai Stanri in katakana on the back.
"I'm really Stanley Guy," he explains. "But you try using a name like 'guy,' particularly here or in the U.S. People simply refuse to believe it, or switch my name around. Now I answer to both."
Stan's first book, "A Death in Tokyo," published in 1986, could not have arrived at a more opportune moment. With Japan's economy bubbling, the world was eager to know more about this superstate. In his native England especially, the media went wild. "This year's best crime fiction. . . . Consummately professional. More please Stanley-san," wrote the Sunday Times. The film rights were quickly sold.