The Decagon House Murders
Pushkin Vertigo · first published 1987 · 288 pages
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.