![]() ![]() There are a number of additional angles, though. First, the original owner apart from being eccentric, had been killed, along with several other people, in a bizarre multiple murder some time before, although the killer was never found – although he was tentatively identified. Solving this murder might, it appears, be the route to the truth about the new murders. And I am very much intrigued by all things Japanese, and this was a new slant. The main thrust is simple enough – a group of friends go to stay on an island where they live in a ten sided house built by an eccentric former owner. They are killed one by one, and of course fear and distrust grows quickly. The novel is quite obviously and deliberately an homage to or reworking of a 1939 Agatha Christie novel, now known as And Then There Were None, the original title being quite rightly completely unacceptable now. This is a very unusual book, and I initially disliked its artificiality – extreme, even by the standards of sealed room murder mysteries – but as it broadened out, I found it increasingly involving. ![]()
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