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Books like The Mill House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji · 1988 · Japan · mystery
Book 2 of 3 in The House Murders
★ 3.62 Goodreads · 6,851 ratings

Each year guests gather at the Mill House, home of a masked recluse in the mountains, to see his late father's paintings, and one stormy night a guest vanishes and another dies.

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12 books for readers of The Mill House Murders

Murder in the Crooked House

Sōji Shimada · 1982 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.56 Goodreads · 5,383 ratings
Book 2 of 2 in Detective Mitarai
shares: locked room, mansion, puzzle, honkaku · exterior, low-key

At the Ice Floe Mansion, a tilted glass house on the northern tip of Hokkaido, a wealthy industrialist gathers guests for Christmas, and a chauffeur is found stabbed in a locked room.

The 8 Mansion Murders

Takemaru Abiko · 1989 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.37 Goodreads · 206 ratings
shares: locked room, mansion, puzzle, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Inspector Kyoya Hayami investigates a man shot with a crossbow in the Eight Mansion, a rich family's house built in the shape of a figure eight.

Death in the House of Rain

Szu-Yen Lin · 2006 · Taiwan 98% match
shares: locked room, mansion, puzzle, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Three people are killed in one night at Rain House, a mansion in the Taiwanese mountains, each in a locked room.

Death on Gokumon Island

Seishi Yokomizo · 1947 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 7,097 ratings
Book 2 of 4 in Kosuke Kindaichi
shares: puzzle, whodunit, gothic, honkaku · exterior, cold

In 1946 Kosuke Kindaichi travels to Gokumon, a remote island in the Seto Inland Sea, to deliver a message from a dying war comrade, who warned that his three sisters would be murdered.

The Moai Island Puzzle

Alice Arisugawa · 1989 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 404 ratings
shares: locked room, puzzle, whodunit, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Alice Arisugawa and his friends from a university mystery club travel to a remote island dotted with moai statues to solve a treasure puzzle left by a dead man, and the killings begin.

The Ginza Ghost

Keikichi Osaka · 2017 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 658 ratings
shares: locked room, puzzle, whodunit, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Twelve impossible-crime stories from the golden age of the Japanese mystery in the 1930s.

The Red Locked Room

Tetsuya Ayukawa · 2020 · Japan 97% match
shares: locked room, puzzle, Japanese, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Impossible-crime stories by one of the masters of the Japanese puzzle mystery, written in the 1950s and 60s, several featuring Chief Inspector Onitsura.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux · 1907 · France 96% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 14,991 ratings
shares: locked room, mansion, puzzle · exterior, cold

Mathilde Stangerson is attacked in a room locked from the inside at her father's chateau outside Paris, and the young reporter Joseph Rouletabille sets out to explain how.

The Plague Court Murders

Carter Dickson · 1934 · US 96% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 1,000 ratings
shares: locked room, puzzle, whodunit · exterior, low-key

At Plague Court, a haunted house in London, a fraudulent psychic is found stabbed in a locked stone hut in the garden, and Sir Henry Merrivale is called in.

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne · 1922 · UK 96% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 15,991 ratings
shares: locked room, mansion, puzzle · exterior, low-key

Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.

Strange Pictures

Uketsu · 2022 · Japan 96% match ★ 3.83 Hardcover · 438 ratings
shares: puzzle, Japanese, honkaku · cold, easy read

A university student finds a strange blog kept by a husband during his wife's pregnancy, and from there a set of mysteries, each built around drawings the reader is invited to study, turn out to be connected.

Strange Houses

Uketsu · 2021 · Japan 96% match ★ 3.56 Goodreads · 125,801 ratings
shares: mansion, puzzle, Japanese · intimate, suspenseful

A writer drawn to the macabre is asked to look into a Tokyo house for sale whose floor plan has a space between its walls that no door reaches; he shows the plans to his architect friend Kurihara, who finds more that doesn't add up.