The decagon house murders6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() If a book is set on an island, or has a limited cast of characters, or involves people cut off from civilization without cell phones (avalanche-prone ski chalets are particularly trendy) the comparisons begin. Both of the shin honkaku novels I’ve read (including The Honjin Murders) are locked-room mysteries, and The Decagon House Murders was clearly riffing on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.įor some reason, almost everything in the mystery genre is being compared to And Then There Were None these days. This novel was written by Yukito Ayatsuji and published in 1987, an exemplar of the shin honkaku genre of modern Japanese mysteries influenced by the golden age. ![]() They’re camped out in a small ten-sided house, the only building still standing after a mansion on the island burned down during the previous crime. A group of university students, members of their school’s mystery club, spend a week on an uninhabited island, the scene of a gruesome murder-suicide the year before. ![]()
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