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020 _a9781782274568 (PB)
041 1 _aeng
080 _a82-31
_bSHI
100 1 _aShimada, Soji
240 1 0 _aNaname yashiki no hanzai.
245 1 0 _aMurder in the crooked house
260 _bPushkin Press
_aLondon
_c2015
300 _a351p
500 _a"A classic Japanese locked-room mystery"--Cover.
520 _a"The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms, murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. But they are unable to solve the puzzle, and powerless to protect the party of house guests as more bizarre deaths follow. Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the renowned sleuth, famous for unmasking the culprit behind the notorious Umezawa family massacre. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders he will. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in The Crooked House first?"--Provided by publisher.
546 _aTranslated from the Japanese.
650 0 _aMurder
650 0 _aMansions
_vFiction
650 7 _aMansions
650 7 _aMurder
690 _aGeneral
700 1 _aKawai, Louise Heal (Translator)
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