The trip from the Nine Dragons office in Shinagawa to the second crime scene didn’t take long. Sakaguchi sent Osaki and Sugamo ahead in their own car while Hiroshi informed the early-arriving employees that their workplace would remain a crime scene for as long as it took.
Sakaguchi talked on the phone almost the entire way, telling Hiroshi only that there was another murder scene and that yes, it involved English, since one of the persons of interest was American. And yes it involved money, since it was in Azabu, a well-off neighborhood in central Tokyo.
A new young detective, whose name Hiroshi had forgotten, drove them. Hiroshi noticed her in the meetings, but he didn’t know anything about her, not even her name. She let Hiroshi and Sakaguchi out in front of the apartment building.
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