The Decagon House Murders -- Yukito Ayatsuji

<b><b>Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits... Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical reveal<i></i> -- <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <p/><b>A hugely enjoyable, page-turning murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most-satisfying conclusions you'll ever read. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time.</b></b> <p/>From <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>Read Yukito Ayatsuji's landmark mystery, <i> The Decagon House Murders</i>, and discover a real depth of feeling beneath the fiendish foul play. <p/>Taking its cues from Agatha Christie's locked-room classic <i>And Then There Were None, </i>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. <p/>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 t