Amateur
My recent leisure reading is Manatsu No Hoteishiki (真夏方程式) of
Higashino Keigo (東野圭吾).
Believe it or not, this is the first story where I ever meet
Yugawa Manabu (湯川學) – the
physicist and amateur detective, nicknamed Galileo,
under Keigo.
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The story is good. I shall not elaborate on the detail and
spoil your appetite for reading it. To me, an interesting side-kick of this
series is having a physicist as the detective – an idea akin to that of Baruch
Spinoza, who suggested that the purest form of philosophy is mathematics. (In
that case, the greatest philosopher in our history should be Bertrand Russell
– a highly arguable conclusion.)
But, if I were going to write a detective fiction myself, I
have an idea.
How about having an astrologist as the detective?
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