"Killing a person to hide a murder - who would think of something like that?"--- a brilliant math professor who had given up his dreams of research and mathematical problem solving. Ishigami is smitten with his neighbor, Yasuko Hanaoka, and when her overhears her murder her abusive ex-husband, he devises and elaborate scheme to cover her guilt. The detective investigating the case and an eminent physicist who sometimes aids the detective in solving crimes attended the same university at the same time as Ishigami. It is his physicist friend, Yukawa, who discovers the dissembling.
"Without people to question the statis quo, how can we ever hope to arrive at truly rational decisions?"
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