The Decagon House Murders
by:
Yukito Ayatsuji (author)
Ho-Ling Wong (translator)
Soji Shimada (contributor)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781508503736 (1508503737)
Publish date: 2015-06-20
Publisher: Locked Room International
Pages no: 228
Edition language: English
Have to say that in the end I was disappointed. You tell me that this book is a homage to "And Then There Were None" and it ends up just being kind of a mess with an ending that was nothing like that book. It didn't help that Ayatsuji had some of the book following two other characters so you don't ...
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji 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 ...
The one other book by Ayatsuji that I'd read, Another, was interesting enough that, when I heard The Decagon House Murders (originally published in 1987) had been translated, I knew I wanted to read it. In some ways it turned out to be better than Another, but in some ways it was worse. In The Deca...
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