The detective stories of the Japanese writer Seite Matsumoto are distinguished by a pronounced national flavor. The Japanese detective is, first of all, a man of duty, but also a medium who comprehends the highest truths, and a poet who subtly senses the beauty of the world around him... The novel “Dots and Lines” begins in a very Japanese way: the corpses of two lovers who decided by mutual consent were discovered on the seashore commit suicide, but something allows detective Jutaro Torigai to doubt the true causes of the tragedy...