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Mr. Higashino started out as an engineer at an auto parts company in the western city of Osaka. He wrote stories in the evenings and on weekends for three years before becoming a full-time writer. More than 25 years later, his book sales number in the millions and have won numerous awards in Japan. Many of them have been made into movies, including “Byakuyakou” (“Into The White Night”), now showing at the Berlin Film Festival. St. Martin’s Press has set an ambitious print run of 75,000 copies for “The Devotion of Suspect X,” in the U.S., and says it bought the rights to the book before interest in global detective stories took off following the runaway success of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” But Mr. Higashino says he won’t be measuring success in the U.S. in terms of number of copies sold.

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