![]() ![]() It’s all about “playing fair”, so clues and suspectsĪre woven through the plot, giving the reader a fair chance of solving ![]() Refers to the crafting of fiendishly clever and complex puzzle scenarios, that can only be solved through This is a homage to Golden Age detective fiction.ĭecagon House Murders is a clear example of the Honkaku, aįorm of crime writing that first emerged in Japan in the 1920s. He also weaves in the story of the mainland investigation of the earlier As the students are picked off one by one, Leroux and Agatha), spend a week isolated on the remote Tsunojima Island,Īs a fresh round of violent deaths begins, and Ayatsuji’s skillful, furious Member nicknamed for a favorite crime writer (Poe, Carr, Orczy, Van, Queen, Taking its cues from Agatha Christie’s locked-room classic And Then There Were None, each House on a remote island… which just happens to have been the scene of Members of a university’s Mystery Club travel to a ten-sided Best-selling The Decagon House Murders (1987) novel by Yukito Ayatsuji! ![]()
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