# The Decagon House Murders

- Author: Yukito Ayatsuji
- Translator: Ho-Ling Wong
- Original title (Japanese): 十角館の殺人
- First published: 1987
- Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
- This edition: 2021
- ISBN: 9781782276340
- Shelf: Japanese Literature in Translation

## Card

Seven members of a university mystery club spend a week on a small island where an odd ten-sided house still stands after an old crime.  
Chapters switch between the island and the mainland, and the puzzle is laid out with old-fashioned fairness.  
For a night with the wind against the shutters.  

## About this book

Members of a university mystery club, who go by the names of famous crime writers, travel to an empty island off the coast of Kyushu. Months earlier, a fire and an unsolved crime destroyed the main house there; only the strange decagonal guesthouse remains. The students plan a week of puzzles and storytelling, while on the mainland a former member receives a strange letter about that crime. What stays is the pleasure of a classic closed-circle mystery told with care.

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