The Decagon House Murders (Pushkin Vertigo Book 32)
von Yukito Ayatsuji
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Beschreibung
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 of dust,’ its sheer, dark cliffs rising straight out of the sea, accessible by one small inlet. There is no electricity on the island, and no telephones, either. A fresh round of violent deaths begins, and Ayatsuji’s skillful, furious pacing propels the narrative. As the students are picked off one by one, he weaves in the story of the mainland investigation of the earlier murders. This is a homage to Golden Age detective fiction, but it’s also unabashed entertainment, leading to a jaw-dropping reveal you won’t see coming.
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Beiträge
3
The first 40% of this book dragged on so slowly, after that it picked up and became more interesting. However, in my opinion it was incredibly clear who the murderer was. I think the book being translated also may have been a factor that caused me to feel disconnected with the characters and the overall book.
Beschreibung
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 of dust,’ its sheer, dark cliffs rising straight out of the sea, accessible by one small inlet. There is no electricity on the island, and no telephones, either. A fresh round of violent deaths begins, and Ayatsuji’s skillful, furious pacing propels the narrative. As the students are picked off one by one, he weaves in the story of the mainland investigation of the earlier murders. This is a homage to Golden Age detective fiction, but it’s also unabashed entertainment, leading to a jaw-dropping reveal you won’t see coming.
Buchinformationen
Haupt-Genre
N/A
Sub-Genre
N/A
Format
E-Book
Seitenzahl
234
Preis
N/A
Beiträge
3
The first 40% of this book dragged on so slowly, after that it picked up and became more interesting. However, in my opinion it was incredibly clear who the murderer was. I think the book being translated also may have been a factor that caused me to feel disconnected with the characters and the overall book.