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The 8 Mansion murders

By Abiko , Takemaru; Shimada , Sōji; Wong , Ho-Ling

Book information

Publisher
Locked Room International
Year
2018
ISBN
9781986036061, 1986036065
Language
englishjapanese
Format
EPUB
Filesize
306 kB (313212 bytes)
Edition
First American edition.
Pages
177\0
Time added
2018-11-13 08:00:54
Murder -- Japan -- Fiction;Murder -- Investigation

Description

"The 8 Mansion, so called because its owner Kikuo Hachisuka, constructed it in the shape of a figure 8, is the scene of two gruesome crossbow murders. First Kikuo's son, and then another resident who witnessed the first murder, are slaughtered in seemingly impossible circumstances. The crimes are investigated by Inspector Kyozo and his accident-prone assistant Kinoshita, but they are actually solved by his brother Shinji, who delivers a "quasi-locked-room lecture" reminiscent of John Dickson Carr's Dr. Fell. Takemaru Akibe was, with Yukito Ayatsuji and Rintaro Norizuki, one of the founders of the shin honkaku movement. The 8 Mansion Murders, published in 1989 was the third in the series of path-breaking books which launched the renaissance of Golden Age style detective fiction in Japan"--Back cover.  Read more...

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