A best-selling novelist is found dead
inside a locked room in a locked house.
One suspect comes to the forefront in Detective Kaga’s mind, but things
aren’t adding up. The mental acrobatics
he performs will finally bring justice to the murdered man and his memory.
This book was translated from
Japanese but aside from the names being unfamiliar to an American audience it
reads like the best complex mysteries of the noir period. The book is arranged in chunks, some from the
point of view of our detective and some written recollections by the prime
suspect. What I found most interesting
was knowing the who, what, where and how early on in the book but being
completely baffled by the why.
Mystery fans looking for a new fresh
voice with the devious plotting of the old masters will find something to like
here.
