The Decagon House Murders (The Classic Japanese Locked Room Mystery #1) -

Yukito Ayatsuji

Pushkin Vertigo

2021

289 páginas

9h 38m

ISBN-10: 1782276343

The members of a university detective-fiction club, each nicknamed for a favorite crime writer (Poe, Carr, Orczy, Van Queen, Leroux and -- yes -- Christie), spend a week on remote Tsunojima Island, attracted to the place, and its eerie 10-sided house, because of a spate of murders that transpired the year before. That collective curiosity will, of course, be their undoing.

As the students approach Tsunojima in a hired fishing boat, 'the sunlight shining down turned the rippling waves to silver. The island lay ahead of them, wrapped in a misty veil of dust, ' its sheer, dark cliffs rising straight out of the sea, accessible by one small inlet. There is no electricity on the island, and no telephones, either.

A fresh round of violent deaths begins, and Ayatsuji's skillful, furious pacing propels the narrative. As the students are picked off one by one, he weaves in the story of the mainland investigation of the earlier murders. This is a homage to Golden Age detective fiction, but it's also unabashed entertainment.

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5 (Perfeito)

far-play at its finest

vamo lá: mesmo sendo baseado numa obra da agatha christie, eu gostei mais da obra do Yukito Ayatsuji do que a original, pq é um livro que realmente se importa em brincar com a gente e nos dá todas as chances pra tentar chegar na resposta antes de ela ser dada (e eu adorei o jeito que foi dada rs)
os personagens não são nem de longe tão carismáticos ou tem uma personalidade aprofundada, mas isso é compensado pela fluidez da hisória e permite que o livro seja devorado muito rápido
vou reler com certeza