7/7/2023 0 Comments The decagon house murder![]() It’s close to a place where a murder-suicide event happened, and before long there’s proof that a killer’s on their trail. The story is simple: seven university students – members of a mystery society, each bearing the name of a famous mystery writer – journey to stay in a ten-sided house on an island. It’s a format which, though popular through the works of Edogawa Rampo, fell out of style until the writing of this book, which relaunched an interest in the orthodox mystery, or honkaku. It’s very much in the classic, locked-room mould: the book was written initially as an offshoot of a university mystery club, where enthusiasts of that style of fiction would write tales in that mode, explaining their logic. ![]() At heart, the book pays tribute to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None: it aims to eliminate all its characters by the end, either by murder or by guilt. Add a sprinkling of weird fiction ghostliness and gothic murder. Add to it murder mystery enthusiasts, each bearing a famous crime writer’s nickhame. ![]() ![]() The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji ![]()
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