The publisher, Locked Room International, is deeply niche and delightfully specific - the kind of operation that only survives in book publishing. The book that arrived from Amazon was flimsy, with a thick seam of glue - clearly print-on-demand. It was a review in the Washington Post that piqued my curiosity. That reads as much like a warning as a recommendation! It was as if they were looking at the raw building plans of a novel. To readers who were used to American and British detective fiction, The Decagon House Murders was a shock. The narration shows no interest in sophisticated writing or a sense of art and is focused solely on telling the story. Per the introduction by mystery writer Shimada Soji:Īs a result, characters act almost like robots, their thoughts depicted only minimally through repetitive phrases.
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