The Devotion of Suspect X (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Tetsuya Ishigami: Math teacher at local high school, neighbor of Yasuko Hanaoka
• Yasuko Hanaoka: Single mother; central character, an employee of Benten-tei, a former hostess at a nightclub
• Misato: Yasuko's junior high school-aged daughter
• Shinji Togashi: Yasuko's ex-husband
• Kuniaki Kudo: Suitor of Yasuko
• Mika Ueno: Misato's friend
• Haruka Tamaoka: Misato's friend
• Morioka: a student of Ishigami
• Sonoko Sugimura: mama at Club Marian in Kinshicho
• Yoko Yamabe: a woman whose new bicycle had been stolen
• Yonazawa: the manager of Benten-tei (a lunchbox shop)
• Sayoko: Yonazawa's wife, a former mama of a nightclub
• Tokiwa: a graduate student at Imperial University
• Manabu Yukawa: Assistant physics professor at Imperial University, friend of Detective Kusanagi
• Kusanagi: Detective
• Kishitani: Junior detective
• Mamiya: Division chief in criminal affairs

Quotes edit see section history

• “He was like the thin crack in her apartment wall. She knew it was there, but she had never paid it that much attention.”

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• one hundred years. The final proof had come from two mathematicians at the University of Illinois, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. They had used a computer to confirm that all maps were only variations on roughly 150 basic maps, all of which could be colored with four colors. That was in 1976.

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• It was one of the most famous problems in mathematics,

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• She had never encountered such deep devotion.

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• There was no point in even teaching math at this low level. Wasn’t it enough to let them know there was this incomprehensible thing out there called mathematics, and leave it at that?

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• Ishigami’s life changed after he met the Hanaokas; in that moment he was renewed. All thought of suicide faded. Joy returned to his daily rituals. It made him happy just imagining

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• “Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?

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• Basically, it asks whether it’s more difficult to think of the solution to a problem yourself or to ascertain if someone else’s answer to the same problem is correct.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Sumida River
• Kiyosu Bridge
• Shin-ohashi Bridge
• Kinshicho
• Edogawa
• Akasaka

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Seizyo no kyuusai.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Keigo Higashino (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Alexander O. Smith (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Naoki Prize (2005, Winner)
• Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize (2006: Best Novel, Winner)
• Edgar Award (Finalist, 2012: Best Novel)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Police Procedurals
• Books › Literature & Fiction

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Yôgisha X no kenshin (IMDb): Aka Suspect X is a 2008 Japanese movie staring Masaharu Fukuyama, Kou Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi and Yasuko Matsuyuki.

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