A
feature common to Matsumoto's detective novels is his use of ordinary people
who just happened to be close to the crime or the victim as the mystery-solving
hero of the story. Too bad that he let his love of needlessly complicated plot
lines get the better of him here. Perhaps it is what contemporary audiences
expected of him. "Me No Kabe" would have better had it been simpler.
An overall good read, and one of Matsumoto's better-known works.