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Full Description
'A tour de force' Sunday Times
'Will thrill fans of Golden Age puzzle mysteries' Publishers Weekly
The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan, a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls. When a guest is found murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are unable to solve the puzzle, and more bizarre deaths follow.
Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the renowned sleuth. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders it is him. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in the Crooked House before he does?
Contents
Dramatis Personae 7
Prologue 9
Act One
Scene 1 · The Entrance of the Ice Floe Mansion 23
Scene 2 · The Salon of the Ice Floe Mansion 29
Scene 3 · The Tower 45
Scene 4 · Room 1 53
Scene 5 · The Salon 59
Scene 6 · The Library 90
Act Two
Scene 1 · The Salon 123
Scene 2 · Room 14, Eikichi Kikuoka's Bedroom 132
Scene 3 · Room 9, Mr and Mrs Kanai's Bedroom 138
Scene 4 · Back in the Salon 147
Scene 5 · Kozaburo's Room in the Tower 153
Scene 6 · The Salon 161
Scene 7 · The Library 175
Scene 8 · The Salon 205
Scene 9 · The Tengu Room 209
Scene 10 · The Salon 225
Act Three
Scene 1 · The Salon 235
Scene 2 · The Tengu Room 242
Scene 3 · Room 15, The Detectives' Bedroom 247
Scene 4 · The Salon 249
Scene 5 · The Library 260
Scene 6 · The Salon 272
Entr'acte 277
Challenge to the Reader 285
Final Act
Scene 1 · The Ground Floor Landing of the West Wing Staircase, or By the Door of Room 12 289
Scene 2 · Room 14 297
Scene 3 · The Tengu Room 302
Scene 4 · The Salon 305
Scene 5 · The Hill 343
Epilogue 347
