'With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing
abundance of alibis ... Readers are in store for plenty of
surprises' Wall Street Journal Multiple murders. Decades apart. No
solid evidence. A popular young girl disappears without a trace,
her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a
burned-out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial
evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't
indicted, he returns to mock the girl's family. And this isn't the
first time he's been suspected of the murder of a young girl;
nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of
evidence. Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the
Tokyo Police worked both cases. The neighbourhood in which the
murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival,
featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During
the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is
suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives
have rock solid alibis. Chief Inspector Kusanagi knows that once
again there is only one person who can solve this string of
seemingly impossible murders: his college friend, Physics professor
and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective
Galileo ...
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