When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in is empty home, his beautiful wife, Ayane, immediately falls under suspicion. All the clues to her being the logical suspect, but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away?
This is a straight mystery with a limited cast. The method of murder is very clever albeit with a major cheat that stops the reader figuring out the sequence of events.
My only complaint is that the writing is flat. This may be my usual complaint about translations, people do not talk like this in real life, the conversations are too grammatically perfect.
The star of the story is the physics professor Yukawa who assists the police,he has at least has a sense of humour and is not as 'flat' as the detectives.
Would go again with this author just to see if things liven up a bit.
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