The Decagon House Murders de Yukito Ayatsuji

Date de parution : 05.2021
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 288
Résumé : The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating the crime, putting their passion for solving mysteries to practical use, but before long there is a fresh murder, and soon the club-members realise they are being picked off one by one. The remaining amateur sleuths will have to use all of their murder-mystery expertise to find the killer before they end up dead too.This is a playful, loving and fiendishly plotted homage to the best of golden age crime. It will delight any mystery fan looking to put their little grey cells to use. Leseprobe The sea at night. A time of quietude. The dull sound of the waves welled up from the endless obscurity, only to disappear again. He sat down on the cold concrete of the breakwater and faced the expansive darkness, his body veiled by the white vapour of his breath. He had been suffering for months. He had been brooding for weeks. He had been thinking about just one thing for days. And now his mind was focusing on one single, clearly defined goal. Everything had been planned. Preparations were almost complete. All he needed to do now was to wait for them to walk into the trap. He knew his plan was far from perfect. It was best described as shoddy rather than meticulous. But he’d never intended to plan everything out in perfect detail in the first place. No matter how hard he tries, man will always be mere man, and never a god. It was easy to imagine oneself as such, but he knew that as long as humans were simply humans, even the most gifte...