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The Decagon House Murders: (The Bizarre House Mysteries)

The Decagon House Murders: (The Bizarre House Mysteries)


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The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating the crime, putting their passion for solving mysteries to practical use, but before long there is a fresh murder, and soon the club-members realise they are being picked off one-by-one. The remaining amateur sleuths will have to use all of their murder-mystery expertise to find the killer before they end up dead too. This is a playful, loving and fiendishly plotted homage to the best of golden age crime. It will delight any mystery fan looking to put their little grey cells to use.

About the Author :
Yukito Ayatsuji (born 1960) is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror novels. He is one of the founders of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan, dedicated to the writing of fair play mysteries inspired by the Golden Age greats. In 1992 he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for his novel The Clock Mansion Murders. The Decagon House Murders was Ayatsuji's debut novel and is the first of his works to be translated into English.

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A knowing tribute to classic crime, it features all manner of puzzles, including locked rooms, jigsaws and magic tricks Highly ingenious Very clever indeed Fiendish foul play... taking its cues from Agatha Christie's locked-room classic And Then There Were None... Ayatsuji's skillful, furious pacing propels the narrative... This is a homage to Golden Age detective fiction, but it's also unabashed entertainment The Decagon House Murders is one of the most enjoyable classic crime novels I've ever read. An evocative island setting, a perfectly constructed puzzle, and an entirely satisfying solution. It'll keep you guessing until the very end. [A] landmark 1987 puzzle mystery Behold, the perfect escapist drug! If I could crush this book into a powder and snort it, I would Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits... Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical reveal. A stunner of a plot, with an ending which I simply could not believe when it was first revealed... Rivals Soji Shimada's The Tokyo Zodiac Murders for sheer audacity and ingenuity Exceptional... The denouement is clever, entirely plausible and not far short of poetic... The Decagon House Murders is sharp and witty and very much in the spirit of the golden age mystery; superbly plotted and wickedly entertaining A terrific mystery, a classic... very much in the manner of Agatha Christie or John Dickson Carr A real page-turner... Highly recommended A captivating read, culminating in an ending as satisfying as it is shocking... The solution to the novel's puzzle unfolds in a way so ingenious and logical it can stand shoulder to shoulder with the very best mystery novels Taking a new page out of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, seven college friends in a mystery club decide to camp out in the infamous 10-sided house on Tsunojima Island, the site of nasty murders. But when one by one the friends start showing up dead, they now have to turn their efforts into figuring out who is killing them and why A wonderfully original take on the Christie classic And Then There Were None [and a] watershed moment in the annals of crime fiction writing in Japan This celebration of traditional whodunits plays with the mystery genre in a wonderfully self-referential way... With each new murder, the remaining members of the group must use their knowledge of the genre to find the killer and try to stay alive


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781782276340
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Vertigo
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Series Title: The Bizarre House Mysteries
  • ISBN-10: 1782276343
  • Publisher Date: 03 Dec 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 129 mm


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