The book cover of Murder in the Crooked House by Sōji Shimada has the tagline 'A Classic Japanese Locked-Room Mystery'. The book has a red background with a figure walking away from the viewer in the centre distance. The author's name and book title are in off-white banners across the page that look like torn paper.

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - 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 called. But they 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 first?

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Fri, 01/01/1982
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