Galileo

My recent leisure reading is Galileo No Kuno (伽利略的苦惱) by Higashino Keigo (東野圭吾).

This is a collection of short stories around Yugawa Manabu (湯川學) - not my first book about the remarkable physicist. As always, this little paperback proves an excellent reading for entertainment, although I am not particularly impressed by the hardcore details of the logical deduction.

Of course, there is an inherent problem of having a professor of physics as the detective - you can call it the information bias. To put it simply: If a crime is committed via some elaborated physics or mechanics, the guilty person must have the necessary knowledge and raw material in order to construct and execute the evil plan. For example, half of the criminals in this book of Kuno are experts of physics or engineering.

As Hamlet said: For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ.