A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto

Author:Seicho Matsumoto
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908524645
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2016-03-19T04:00:00+00:00

For the next two weeks, as he anxiously waited for the detective agency to complete the second investigation, Asai was distracted and unable to concentrate. He was impatient to hear what the housekeeper from the dispatch service had to say about Kubo’s private life and the events of 7 March. The detective had told him he couldn’t be sure whether she still worked for the service, but Asai held out hope he’d be able to find her.

It was surprising that one lone maid from a cleaning service had been employed to clean such a large house, but these days it was getting more and more difficult to find a live-in housekeeper. Asai supposed that as there was only Kubo and his wife, and as she was currently hospitalized, there wasn’t any call for full-time live-in help. Or maybe that was why he had sold the house off – because it had become so difficult to keep it running without a permanent housekeeper. He’d heard many times that when a couple were on their own without children, living in an apartment was often the more practical and comfortable option.

Asai had long believed that there was a connection between Kubo’s sale of the fine old house in a great neighbourhood and his relationship with Chiyoko Takahashi. He hadn’t quite given up on that theory, but ever since he’d heard about the maid he’d employed from the dispatch service, he was anxious to hear what other evidence she might have.

Anyway, he was certain that the next investigation would make everything clear. What insight was he going to get into Kubo’s private life? Was there a connection between him and Ms Takahashi?

Or was he hoping to find out whether Eiko had somehow played a part in Kubo’s life?

Going to the detective agency under a false name, going back in person to pick up the report, paying in cash – all these were to make sure that the detective had no idea of his true identity. So if it turned out that Eiko was mixed up in all this, then the detective would have no idea that she was related to Asai in any way. He wouldn’t feel the need to hide any of the details from his client.

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