The Decagon House Murders

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Discover the classic Japanese locked-room murder mystery, hailed as one of the best mystery books of all time by Town & Country and Esquire-now available in English! "A thrilling homage to [Agatha Christie's] And Then There Were None," a detective fiction club gathers on and isolated island-the site of a 10-sided house and a spate of unsolved murders (Guardian). Taking its cues from Agatha Christie's locked-room classic And Then There Were None, the setup is this: 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 before. That collective curiosity will, of course, be their undoing. As the students approach Tsunojima in a hired fishing boat, 'the sunlight shining down turned the rippling waves to silver. The island lay ahead of them, wrapped in a misty veil ...