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The corpse of an unknown provincial is discovered under the rails of a train in a Tokyo station, and Detective Imanishi is assigned to the case.
In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typically Japanese detective fond of gardening and haiku, must follow a killer's trail across the social strata of Japan.
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John Seebeck
reviewed Inspector Imanishi Investigates on June 21, 2018
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
After having really enjoyed Matsumoto's A Quiet Place (my review is here: ) I was ready to have my mind blown by this... but it wasn't. Possibly that's because the book was written a good 10 years earlier, I'm not sure. And whIle I enjoyed Imanishi's dogged pursuit of clues around 1960s Japan, complete with intentional and unintentional glimpses of Japan's work ethic, sense of personal responsibility and non-existent home-life, something about the mystery rankled.
I think coincidences are like exclamation points; you are allowed one per novel, any more than that and you risk jolting the reader awake from the fictive dream. Well, I was nudged out of that happy place by several: a murder victim happened to live round the corner from our hero, and then another victim happened to have moved into his sister's apartment; a key clue happened to be written on a scrap of paper discovered a few days later on a street by a bus stop, then our hero happened to read a fictional story in the paper which happened to be about one of the murder victims. All very suspicious coincidences if they had happened in a little village, but in megapolis Tokyo? C'mon...
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