yukito ayatsuji the clock mansion murders

They will be completely cut off from the mainland for a week, relying on basic supplies and facilities as they poke around the Blue Mansion ruins to see if they can work out what really happened to the Nakamuras and Kitamuras and perhaps get inspiration for stories for the Club’s magazine. Now 7 members of K- University’s Mystery Club – Ellery, Van, Carr, Poe, Agatha, Orczy, and Leroux (honorific nicknames granted to them as senior members of the Club) – are heading to Tsunijoma where they plan to stay in the Decagon House, a 10-sided building designed by Seiji. The prime suspect was Seiji’s gardener, Yoshikawa, who disappeared the same day and hasn’t been seen since. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links.Ħ months ago on the private island of Tsunijoma, Nakamura Seiji (a reclusive and wealthy architect), his wife Kazue and their two servants the Kitamuras were brutally murdered and his house, the Blue Mansion, destroyed in a fire. You can buy THE DECAGON HOUSE MURDERS by Yukito Ayatsuji from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. Will anyone be able to untangle the murderer’s fiendish plan before it’s too late? One thing’s for sure: it’s the perfect destination for the K- University Mystery Club’s trip.īut when the first club member turns up dead, the remaining amateur sleuths realise they will need all of their murder-mystery expertise to get off the island alive.Īs the party are picked off one by one, the survivors grow desperate and paranoid, turning on each other. The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders.

Yukito ayatsuji the clock mansion murders