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01-16-2023, 11:42 AM
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Loosheesh
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Originally Posted by
salty-horse
The Decagon House Murders
by Yukito Ayatsuji, translated by Ho-Ling Wong is $2 on
Amazon.com
This is a
shinhonkaku murder mystery
(
another description
) where the mystery is supposed to be "fair" and the reader is challenged to solve it before the solution is revealed.
I read this one last year and found it so-so; maybe the verve was lost in translation, but it was too flat for my taste. I was able to figure out the murderer easily enough but there's a nice twist at the end.
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