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Elementary, my dear.

March 17, 2017 by ingres77 2 Comments

Yoshitake Mashiba is the CEO of a Tokyo company, and despite being married to the “perfect wife”, he wants to end the marriage because she can’t provide him with children. He has put everything in his personal life on hold until he accomplishes this, his one and only goal. Needless to say, he isn’t a particularly sympathetic character. Ayame, his wife, leaves town to visit her family, and Yoshitake dies suddenly, two days later, from poisoned coffee. Though she has a motive, her alibi is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Detective Galileo, Japanese fiction, Keigo Higashino, Salvation of a Saint, The Devotion of Suspect X

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Detective Galileo, Japanese fiction, Keigo Higashino, Salvation of a Saint, The Devotion of Suspect X ·
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