East Asian Literary Fiction
by Seichō Matsumoto
When the bodies of a young couple are discovered in a rocky cove in Hakata Bay, police initially dismiss it as a straightforward double suicide by cyanide poisoning. But a dogged detective sees an impossible puzzle in the details and refuses to accept the obvious answer. Matsumoto's masterful procedural unravels a complex web of alibis, train schedules, and human deception in postwar Japan.
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