The Decagon House Murders

, #1

Paperback, 224 pages

English language

Published May 24, 2021 by Pushkin Vertigo.

ISBN:
978-1-78227-634-0
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The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it’s haunted. One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K-University Mystery Club’s annual trip.

But when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive.

As the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late?

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reviewed The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (The House Murders, #1)

Review - The Decagon House Murders

Published in 1978, THE DECAGON HOUSE MURDERS is credited with launching the shinhonkaku movement, a return to Golden Age style plotting and clue provision for the reader to discover along the way. It's often described as a subgenre of the honkaku style - which can best be described as whodunit's rather than why or howdunits. The timeframe of the emergence of both of these styles is particularly interesting, with honkaku mostly considered to have been at its most prolific from the late 1880's to the mid 1950's and shinhonkaku styled novels prevalent from the late 1980s through to around 1997, although examples are still being published today. Perhaps as a result of those distinct timeframes, novels from the shinhonkaku period are normally seen as more interactive or lively, incorporating critical commentary of both itself and other works (or theories / methodologies) commonly deployed in Golden Age works, whereas honkaku is …

reviewed The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (The House Murders, #1)

Leitura viciante com um final surpreendente

Os 7 integrantes do clube de mistérios da faculdade decidem passar alguns dias em uma casa de férias isolada numa ilha, que já havia sido palco de um assassinato antes. Não demora muito para que o primeiro corpo apareça, levando os jovens a se perguntarem: "o assassino do caso anterior está nos caçando, ou um de nós está mentindo...?"

A fórmula de trancar várias pessoas em uma mansão funciona muito bem nas mãos de Ayatsuji, que alterna a narrativa entre a ilha e a investigação em terra firme.

O resultado é uma leitura viciante, onde ficamos na ponta dos pés esperando a próxima revelação... ou a próxima morte...

E no fim do livro, a revelação é mais que chocante. E ela é feita com maestria: a última frase do décimo capítulo, com apenas duas palavras derruba qualquer detetive de sua poltrona (claro, a resposta é melhor explicada …

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