I’m continuing my journey with Japanese Police Procedural novels, this one is a debut novel and modern classic from the 1950’s.  I think this has multiple names and also known as Points and Lines.  This was a vey interesting novel, with the book written around two main character detectives.  One detective that was suspicious of the crime being more than it appeared and the second detective who actually does most of the leg work and some of their communications during the investigation.  But what gives this book interest is not really the plot but the tone and atmosphere.  This book is very much about corruption and the people who are unwilling to accept it, and their desire to solve the case but with a written with a tone of pessimistic acceptance that catching one bad guy doesn’t solve the culture of corruption.  I also loved how the detectives really had to work to find clues that supported their gut feeling.  Overall would recommend but if the plot was more engaging it would have been a five star from me.