The Decagon House murders
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Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. The Decagon House Murders is a milestone in the history of detective fiction. Published in 1987, it is credited with launching the shinhonkaku movement which restored Golden Age style plotting and fair-play clues to the Japanese mystery scene, whi
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…has reviewed a good collection of books by French author Paul Halter: https://theinvisibleevent.com/2022/10/01/the-demon-of-dartmo... And Ho-Ling Wong, translator of some Shin Honkaku classics like The Decagon House Murders and The Moai Island Puzzle has a long-running blog reviewing predominantly Japanese mystery fiction: https://ho-lingnojikenbo.blogspot.com As for me personally, the best non-English mystery novels I’ve…
on “Ask HN: What are some captivating fair play mystery books that you've read” ↗It's about the forensics which don't interest me. Got me thinking about the idea of a classic space murder mystery though along the lines of Agatha Christie's "And then there were none" or "The Decagon House Murders" where it almost has to be someone present in the isolated environment. Would love to read something like that if it's been done.
on “What would a murder in space look like?” ↗