Included in the Publishers Weekly Best Mysteries/Thrillers of 2015 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. A milestone in the history of detective fiction, The Decagon House Murders is credited with launching the shin honkaku movement which restored Golden Age style plotting and fair-play clues to the Japanese mystery scene. 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.

Please note: LRI’s contract to publish this book expired on December 31st 2019; this edition is now only available from secondary sellers.