![]() I mulled over a number of titles before finally settling on Yukito Ayatsuji’s The Decagon House Murders. As this struck me as a pretty significant milestone, I wanted to be sure to mark the occasion with a book review of a title that mattered to me. Today’s post is going to be rather special as it will be my five hundredth book review on this blog. This is a homage to Golden Age detective fiction, but it’s also unabashed entertainment. As the students are picked off one by one, he weaves in the story of the mainland investigation of the earlier murders. The members of a university detective-fiction club, each nicknamed for a favorite crime writer (Poe, Carr, Orczy, Van Queen, Leroux and - yes - Christie), spend a week on remote Tsunojima Island, attracted to the place, and its eerie 10-sided house, because of a spate of murders that transpired the year beforeĪ fresh round of violent deaths begins, and Ayatsuji’s skillful, furious pacing propels the narrative. ![]() English translation first published in 2015 ![]()
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