Someone begins killing the club members-one by one. But it isn't long before they are involved in a very personal murder mystery of their own. Initially, they enjoy exploring the grounds and wondering about the details of the crime six months before. Van Dine meets the six-he had come ahead to bring the supplies and prepare the lodgings and they settle down for their stay. "So I really don't have to check up on ya even once?" the fisherman asked the six as they set foot on the dangerously creaking pier. They explicitly tell the fisherman who runs them out to the island on is boat not to come back for a week.* When the uncle of one of the club members buys the property, the club takes advantage of their connections to plan a week's excursion. The island and Decagon House was the site of a ghastly murder (possibly murder-suicide) just six months before and it appeals to their sense of mystery. They are so immersed in their hobby that they have each taken names from classic detective fiction: Agatha, Orczy, Van Dine, Leroux, Ellery,Ĭarr, and Poe. This time, unlike the Christie novel, the people aren't strangers brought together by an unknown host-they are a group of students who are all members of a mystery club at a local university. The term.now symbolises the rebirth of the classic puzzle-plot novel with a new twist, audacity: pushing the bounds of the puzzle-plot novel while adhering to its fair-play rule.Īyatsuji takes the familiar trope of a group of people stuck on an island with no escape from a murderer and gives it a twist. The publication of The Decagon House Murders in 1987 was seen as a mile stone in detective fiction and the start of the shin honkaku movement. As is stated in the notes at the end of the 2015 English translation by Ho-Ling Wong: It also represents a resurgence of the classic crime novel in Japan. The Decagon House Murders (1987) by Yukito Ayatsuji is a daring homage to the Golden Age detective novel and, most particularly, to Agatha Christie's classic impossible crime novel, And Then There Were None.
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