Books like The Village of Eight Graves
Tatsuya, a young man in post-war Kobe, learns he is heir to a powerful family in a mountain village cursed by the killing of eight samurai centuries ago, and when he arrives, people start dying.
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The Mill House Murders
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.
The Red Locked Room
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 Ginza Ghost
Twelve impossible-crime stories from the golden age of the Japanese mystery in the 1930s.
Murder in the Crooked House
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.
Salvation of a Saint
Yoshitaka Mashiba, about to leave his wife because she can't have children, is poisoned with arsenic in his coffee while she is hundreds of kilometres away, and Detective Galileo is asked how.
The Moai Island Puzzle
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 8 Mansion Murders
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.
The Plague Court Murders
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 Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.
Death in the House of Rain
Three people are killed in one night at Rain House, a mansion in the Taiwanese mountains, each in a locked room.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
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.