Shimada Soji - Murder In The Crooked House - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A fiendish Locked ROOM Mystery from the Japanese master of the genre. Never before available in English. By the author of the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders. The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances the police are called. But they are unable to solve the puzzle and powerless to protect the party of house guests as more bizarre deaths follow. Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai the renowned sleuth famous for unmasking the culprit behind the notorious Umezawa family massacre. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders he will. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in The Crooked House first?
Title: Murder In The Crooked House
Author(s): Shimada Soji
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781782274568
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/25/2019
Category: Fiction In Translation