Murder in the Crooked House (御手洗潔 #2)
The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls. When a guest is found murdered in...
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The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls. When a guest is found murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. But they are unable to solve the puzzle, and more bizarre deaths follow.
Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the renowned sleuth. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders it is him. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in The Crooked House first?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781782274568 (1782274561)
Publish date: 2019-06-25
Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: 御手洗潔 (#2)
Kozaburo Hamamoto, a rich businessman, invites several guests to stay at the Ice Floe Mansion, his eccentric creation, during the Christmas of 1983. The mansion consists of a main building with a confusing layout and very slightly sloping floors, as well as a tower modeled after the Leaning Tower of...
First off, a big applause for the architect who has constructed the Ice Floe Mansion. [Source] Even though the whole crooked house theme has been a bit over the top, I enjoyed the setting of the novel. And the rest of the novel was an enjoyable read, too. The story has been completely unrealist...
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