ARGONAUT BOOKS

The Crooked House sits on a snowboard cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms, murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. Reviews "Shimada's brilliant sequel to The Tokyo Zodiac Murders will thrill fans of golden age puzzle myste...Read More