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Labyrinth House Murders

Pages
272
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

For the sixtieth birthday of their dying mentor, the celebrated novelist Miyagaki Yōtarō, four young mystery writers descend into the Labyrinth House — an underground maze of a mansion built by the eccentric architect Nakamura Seiji.

When Miyagaki is found dead, his will sets a macabre contest: each writer must compose the finest murder story they can, judged for half his fortune, bound by one rule — every author must be the victim of his own tale.

Then the guests begin dying exactly as the stories foretell, and mystery devotee Kiyoshi Shimada must unravel a puzzle nested inside a puzzle. The third of Yukito Ayatsuji's Bizarre House mysteries.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10