![]() ![]() Along with an enthusiastic partner, they set about trying to solve another mystery from years past, which has connections to the island. ![]() Meanwhile, back on the mainland, two members of the club who chose not to go receive mysterious letters that lead them to believe that something is afoot on the island. Naturally, soon enough the students begin to be killed off, and the race is on to discover the murderer's identity. ![]() In this novel, six members of the Kyoto University Mystery Club-each taking the alias of a famous mystery writer-assemble on an abandoned island and take up residence in a decagonally shaped house. Ayatsuji reinvigorates the classical English mysteries of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ellery Queen, and John Dickson Carr by stripping them down to their essentials and examining their moving parts. Available for the first time in English, Ayatsuji's debut novel was first published in Japan in 1987, the same year as the debut of Paul Halter, another giant of locked room mysteries. ![]()
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