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Of all of the excellent Western writers, Kobe Abe was indubitably the absolute most flexible. With The Ruined Place, he designed a magical literary crime novel that includes the narrative suspense of Chandler with the emotional level of Dostoevsky.Mr. Nemuro, a respectable salesperson, vanished over half of a year-ago, but only now does his appealing however intoxicating spouse hire a personal eye. The detective has but two hints: a matchbook and a photograph.