Murder in the Crooked House

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...Read more

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