![]() ![]() Some months previously there occurred on the island the mysterious deaths of the owner of the property, his wife and their two servants. ![]() Heavily influenced by Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, The Decagon House Murders is about seven Japanese students who decide to stay on an isolated island not far from the main land in a mysterious Decagon House. The new movement was characterised by robot-like personages game-like setting and lacking literary context or significance, being purely about solving a whodunit mystery using logical reasoning. That movement was a revival of the traditional “logical reasoning” detective fiction in Japan that was prevalent in the Golden Age of detective fiction in the 1920s. This book, translated from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong, “ was seen as a milestone in detective fiction and the start of the shin honkaku (new orthodox) movement”. ![]()
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