Bought this in Blackwells in Edinburgh.
A Japanese detective novel, published in the late 1950’s and, apparently, never out of print, about a murder in Japan which defies logic due to railway timetables, ie; the suspect cannot possibly have been in the locations required to commit the crime. Difficult without an intimate knowledge of the Japanese railway (and airline) systems.
There wasn’t really much more to it than that; two policemen from different locations solve the crime by extensive study of all the permutations and manage to track down and catch the (fairly obvious) suspect.
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