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The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji, Hong-Li Wong

  • 224 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1987
  • 2 editions
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1 About this book

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?

Good for readers who want: a thriller and a mystery.

  • Murder
  • Thrillers
  • Mystery
  • Language and languages
  • College students
  • Cold cases
  • Islands
  • Language ARTS & disciplines

2 About Yukito Ayatsuji

Born 1960

Naoyuki Uchida (内田 直行, Uchida Naoyuki; born December 23, 1960), known by his pen name Yukito Ayatsuji (綾辻 行人, Ayatsuji Yukito), is a Japanese writer of mystery and horror. He is one of the founders of Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and one of the representative writers of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery writing.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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