6/2/2023 0 Comments The decagon house murders 1![]() ![]() The Decagon House Murders is playing with one of Agatha Christie's most horror like novels, And Then There Were None. The book had been translated into French, and will now be available in English from Locked Room International, translated by Ho-Ling Wong (whose blog you should be reading if you're interested in Japanese mysteries).Īyatsuji is probably best known in the English speaking world for the horror mystery Another, which was adapted into an anime series. 十角館の殺人(jukkakukan no satsujin, The Decagon House Murders, 1987) by AYATSUJI Yukito ( 綾辻 行人, born 1960) is one of the most famous detective stories in modern Japan, credited with starting the "new orthodox" (shinhonkaku) trend in Japanese detective fiction and rated high in lists of the top Japanese mysteries. The translation to the book I'm writing about here isn't out yet (and I haven't seen it myself) but since it's been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, I take it that it should be appearing soon. ![]() ![]() There are so few translations of Japanese mysteries. It's always nice when the book I'm reviewing is one that readers without knowledge of Japanese have a chance of reading. ![]()
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