The Decagon House Murders
Paperback Published on: 03/12/2020; Language: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)
Price: £10.99
Bookseller Reviews
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the Agatha Christie of Japan ?
Brutal Japanese locked room crime,based on a remote island where a serial murder took place,A University Murder club wants to find out what happened,luckil... READ MORE
An island, a murderer and enough call back to the classics of crime to make anyone happy.
‘The Decagon House Murders’ do not just nod to Agatha Christies’s ‘And Then There Were None’ it positively worships that story. In fact I would recommend ... READ MORE
Synopsis
The Japanese cult classic mystery
The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it's haunted. One thing's for sure: it's the perfect destination for the K-University Mystery Club's annual trip. But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive.
As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer's fiendish plan before it's too late?
Publisher information
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- ISBN: 9781782276340
- Number of pages: 288
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
- Languages: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)
Customer Reviews
View allEnjoyable crime
This was originally published in Japan in 1987 which is worth remembering as it predates the internet and the rise in mobile phones. The story would be har... READ MORE
Well Thought Out Murder Mystery
ARC provided to me through NetGalley for an honest review.
I didn't really know what to expect from this book but I love Agatha Christie type murder my... READ MORE
Japanese Mystery
A group of Japanese students are members of a Mystery Club and each of them take on names of famous crime writers . A number of them go to visit an island ... READ MORE
Clever, intriguing and complex
A group of Japanese University students, with a shared interest in murder mysteries, visit an island with a grisly history. Less than a year ago, a gruesom... READ MORE
Another enjoyable mystery from the Pushkin Vertigo series
A wryly amusing closed-room murder mystery which pays particular homage to And Then There Were None and more widely the Golden Age of detective fiction. Th... READ MORE
Enjoyable mystery
The Decagon House Murders is a 1987 Japanese murder mystery in the Golden Age honkaku style. Students from a university murder mystery club visit an offs... READ MORE
Excellent
I really enjoyed this mystery novel. It was a mix of contemporary crime but paid homage to golden age crime fiction through the plot and the characters. Th... READ MORE
Lost in Translation
The Decagon House Murders
Originally published in 1987, this is the English translation of the book which is said to have been credited with launching the... READ MORE
Yukito Ayatsuji - The Decagon House Murders
Murder and mystery are what they are all interested in as the members of the so called Mystery Club of their university. They like to delve in the classic ... READ MORE
Absolutely devoured it
I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I picked up this book. But I read the whole thing in a matter of hours. Clever and well thought out. It provoked s... READ MORE
Japanese homage to the Golden Age greats
thanks to Netgalley and Pushkin Press for an ARC.
This is a classic golden age homage puzzle mystery largely set on a remote island, where a group of mys... READ MORE
A twisting Japanese homage to AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
6 months ago on the private island of Tsunijoma, Nakamura Seiji (a reclusive and wealthy architect), his wife Kazue and their two servants the Kitamuras we... READ MORE
Very good
It's my favourite book :D