Yukito Ayatsuji

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. The Decagon House Murders is a milestone in the history of detective fiction. Published in 1987, it is credited with launching the shinhonkaku movement which restored Golden Age style plotting and fair-play clues to the Japanese mystery scene, which had been dominated by the social school of mystery for several decades. It is also said to have influenced the development of the wildly popular anime movement. This, the first English edition, contains a lengthy introduction by the maestro of Japanese mystery fiction, Soji Shimada. Locked Room International discovers and publishes impossible crime masterpieces from all over the world

The Decagon House Murders

A hugely enjoyable, page-turning classic Japanese mystery with an ingenious conclusion from the author of The Decagon House Murders, translated into English for the first time Don’t miss this beautifully constructed, highly entertaining and atmospheric murder mystery--its propulsive plot makes for a compelling, page-turning read. As they do every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote, castle-like Water Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived his life behind a rubber mask ever since a disfiguring car accident. This year, however, the visit is disrupted by an impossible disappearance, the theft of a painting and a series of baffling murders. The brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada arrives to investigate. But will he get to the truth, and will you too be able to solve the mystery of the Mill House Murders?

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The Mill House Murders

Ho-Ling Wong

Mill House Murders

In the spring of 1998, Koichi Sakakibara transfers to Yomiyama North Middle School. In class, he develops a sense of unease as he notices that the people around him act like they're walking on eggshells, and students and teachers alike seem frightened. As a chain of horrific deaths begin to unfold around him, he comes to discover that he has been placed in the cursed Class 3 in which the student body head count is always one more than expected. Class 3 is haunted by a vengeful spirit responsible for gruesome deaths in an effort to satisfy its spite. To stop the vicious cycle gripping his new school, Koichi decides to get to the bottom of the curse, but is he prepared for the horror that lies ahead...?

Another

Another (Japanese Edition)

THE TWISTY AND INGENIOUS THIRD INSTALLEMENT IN THE BIZARRE HOUSE MYSTERIES.

The famed mystery writer Miyagaki Yotaro lives a life of seclusion in the remote Labyrinth House. When Yotaro invites four young crime authors to his home for a birthday party, they are honoured to accept. But no sooner have they arrived than they are confronted with a shocking death, then lured into a bizarre, deadly competition…

As the twisted contest gathers pace, murder follows murder. The ingenious sleuth Shimada Kiyoshi investigates, but can he solve the mystery of the house before all those trapped in its labyrinth are dead? And can you guess the solution before he does?

The Labyrinth House Murders

Summer, 1998. Mei Misaki, age fifteen, has gone with her family to their seaside vacation home. There she meets the ghost of Teruya Sakaki, her classmate from Yomiyama North Middle School Class 3-3 who, like Mei, witnessed the mysterious events that had transpired at the school. There begins an adventure of memory and mystery as they search for the ghost's body and his memories alike.

Another Episode S / 0

Ａｎｏｔｈｅｒ 2001

Another II

Another [アナザー] 3rd period

Another [アナザー] 4th period

Anazā

Hiro Kiyohara

Eine einsame Insel, ein unaufgeklärter Vierfachmord, ein zehneckiges Gebäude... Die Mitglieder des Mystery-Klubs der Universität K sind begeistert! Für eine Woche ziehen sieben von ihnen ins vom Feuer unversehrte Dekagon auf das von aller Technik abgeschnittene Eiland. Nicht nur die neue Unterkunft ist geheimnisvoll, auch stellt sich bald die Frage: Ist womöglich einer von ihnen schuldig? Und was hat es mit den Briefen an die auf dem Festland verbliebenen Studierenden auf sich?

Ein hochspannender Psychothriller in 5 Bänden um den mysteriösen Architekten Seiji Nakamura – und das japanische Pendant zu Whodunit-Plots wie in »Knives Out« oder den Krimis aus der Feder Agatha Christies.

Mord im Dekagon 1

Mord im Dekagon 2

Another 1. & 2. Dönem

Another 3. ve 4. Dönem

Another, Volume 1

Jukkakukan no satsujin

Collège de Yomiyama-Nord, 1972. Lorsque Misaki, élève de 3e-3, trouve la mort, les autres élèves de la classe refusent de l’accepter, et font «comme si Misaki était toujours en vie». Tant et si bien que leur camarade apparaît, pâle mais avec le sourire, sur la photo de classe de fin d’année ! Depuis, la «classe maudite» est le théâtre d’accidents en série, terrifiant élèves aussi bien que professeurs. Et si la 3e-3 était devenue l’antichambre de la mort ?

Celle qui n'existait pas

Eine einsame Insel, ein unaufgeklärter Vierfachmord, ein zehneckiges Gebäude... Die Mitglieder des Mystery-Klubs der Universität K sind begeistert! Für eine Woche ziehen sieben von ihnen ins vom Feuer unversehrte Dekagon auf das von aller Technik abgeschnittene Eiland. Nicht nur die neue Unterkunft ist geheimnisvoll, auch stellt sich bald die Frage: Ist womöglich einer von ihnen schuldig? Und was hat es mit den Briefen an die auf dem Festland verbliebenen Studierenden auf sich? Ein hochspannender Psychothriller in 5 Bänden um den mysteriösen Architekten Seiji Nakamura – und das japanische Pendant zu Whodunit-Plots wie in »Knives Out« oder den Krimis aus der Feder Agatha Christies. Der japanische Romancier Yukito Ayatsuji adaptiert seinen Bestseller-Roman als Manga und lässt ihn wie schon bei »Another« von Hiro Kiyohara unheimlich elegant aufs Papier bringen. Weitere Informationen: - Abgeschlossen in 5 Bänden

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