A Midsummer's Equation (Detective Galileo Series, Book 3)

A Minotaur Books first U.S. edition, first printing hardcover in fine condition. Boards are clean, bright, and square throughout with absolutely no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. Published by Minotaur Books (St. Martin's Press), New York, in February 2016, and originally published in Japan, in 2011, this first U.S. edition, first printing hardcover of A Midsummer's Equation is the third novel in Keigo Higashino's Detective Galileo series, in the English translation by Alexander O. Smith — Harvard-educated Japanese-English translator. Keigo Higashino, winner of the Edogawa Rampo Prize (1985) and one of the most celebrated novelists in Japan, is frequently cited alongside Haruki Murakami as the two writers every general Japanese reader is expected to know. The Detective Galileo series follows physicist Manabu Yukawa, a professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo known to the police as "Detective Galileo," whose analytical mind draws him into criminal investigations that baffle conventional methods. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.