![]() It turns out that Ishigami and Yukawa were old classmates who have lost touch, so Yukawa reconnects with his friend and begins to make his own enquiries about the murder, as he comes to suspect that Ishigami is somehow involved. ![]() ![]() One neighbour (in fact the only one mentioned in the book as being interviewed), a mathematics teacher called Ishigami, inadvertently reveals that he is an alumnus of Imperial University, where Kishitani also studied (sociology), and where he frequently goes to consult a friend and kind of Sherlock Holmes figure, Yukawa, who has helped on previous cases via his scientific insights. This causes Kishitani to focus on Yasuko, her friends, employers and neighbours. First, the corpse has to be identified via missing-persons reports. The police, led by Kishitani, become involved when someone reports a dead body down at the river. The reader knows who committed the murder and why, but not the details of how the crime was covered up to avoid detection. The crime itself is the murder of Togashi, ex-husband of Yasuko, a youngish woman who works in a bento shop (snack bar providing takeaway lunches). ![]() Set in Tokyo, this novel is about the investigation of a crime and the psychological effects of guilt and suspicion on those involved in it. ![]() Little, Brown UK, 2011 (first published in Japan 2005) Translated by Alexander O Smith with Elye Alexander ![]()
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