![]() It will delight any mystery fan looking to put their little grey cells to use. This is a playful, loving and fiendishly plotted homage to the best of golden age crime. The remaining amateur sleuths will have to use all of their murder-mystery expertise to find the killer before they end up dead too. 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 members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. ![]() That’s what has made it a classic in Japan, and what readers of this first ever English translation will love too. A hugely enjoyable, page-turning murder mystery with one of the best and most-satisfying conclusions you’ll ever read: clever enough that you’re unlikely to guess it, but simple enough that you’ll kick yourself when it’s revealed. The Decagon House Murders was Ayatsujis debut and is considered a landmark crime novel in Japan, where it revived the traditional puzzle mystery format and inspired a new generation of writers. ![]()
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