Tokyo Detective Kusanagi has been assigned the murder investigation of a body
that has been found wrapped in a tarp. The face has been smashed beyond
recognition and the fingertips burned. When a person is found to be
missing from a rooming house, the are able to identify the man as
Togashi. Togashi was at one time married to Yasuko Hanaoka. When
Kusanagi and his right hand man, Kishitani, question her she denies
having seen him for some time.
Kusanagi's boss Mamiya has found
out that Togashi was asking about Yasuko at her former place of work
five days before he was murdered. Kusanagi occasionally asks for help
of a university professor by the name of Yukawa, on cases that are
difficult. It turns out that Yukawa knows Ishigami, a neighbour of
Yasuko. Yukawa decides to pay Ishigami a visit to find out what he can.
A
friend of Yasuko's takes her to dinner. Kusanagi wants to know who
this Kudo is, and if he was involved in the murder of Togashi. Ishigami
also wants to know more about him as he is also interested in Yasuko.
Meantime
Yukawa presses Kusanagi to place more interest in Ishigami. He feels
that Ishigami is somehow involved in the murder. However, everyone is
surprised when Ishigami turns himself in for the murder. Kusanagi has
to accept it, but Yukawa can't.
Author Keigo Higashino presents
the reader with a few twists and turns before reaching the ultimate
conclusion to this murder mystery. A good read.
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