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The Decagon House murders

byYukito Ayatsuji

Who is this book for? Fans of classic detective fiction and psychological thrillers.

Topics MurderFriendshipSurvivalIdentity
MoodSuspenseful, Mysterious
ViolenceModerate
Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. The Decagon House Murders is a milestone in the history of detective fiction. Published in 1987, it is credited with launching the shinhonkaku movement which restored Golden Age style plotting and fair-play clues to the Japanese mystery scene, which had been dominated by the social school of mystery for several decades. It is also said to have influenced the development of the wildly popular anime movement. This, the first English edition, contains a lengthy introduction by the maestro of Japanese mystery fiction, Soji Shimada. Locked Room International discovers and publishes impossible crime masterpieces from all over the world

Language

en

Published on

01/01/2015

Pages

228

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781508503736

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