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The Moai Island Puzzle by [Alice Arisugawa, Ho-Ling Wong]

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In his introduction, Soji Shimada, the doyen of the Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction known as shin honkaku, calls this novel a masterpiece and Publisher’s Weekly gives it a starred review.
Three students from Eito University in Kyoto travel to a remote island populated with moai statues in order to find a hidden treasure, but several murders—including one impossible--occur before it can be located.

Don't be fooled by the bland description. The locked room murder is brilliant and worthy of John Dickson Carr at his best, and the dying message and chain of deduction leading to the killer rival anything written by Ellery Queen. And neither Carr nor Queen ever combined both in one novel.

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21 May 2016
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Born in 1959 in Osaka, Japan, Alice Arisugawa obtained a Bachelor of Law from Doshisha University. In 1989, he made a literary debut with "Gekko Game" (The Moonlight Game). In 2003, he won The Mystery Writers of Japan Award with "Malay Tetsudo no Nazo" (The Malayan Railway Mystery); and in 2008, he won The Honkaku Mystery Award with "Jo-okoku no Shiro" (The Castle of the Queendom). His other works include "Soto no Akuma" (Double-Headed Devil), "Yamabushi Jizobo no Horo (Bohemian Dreams), and many others. He served as the first chairperson for The Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01G0SBSYM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Locked Room International (21 May 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 655 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages

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Jayesh

Books keeps you engaged throughout

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 July 2020

From solving puzzles with the help of friends to finding tresure which hidden by grandfather.. Then it takes twitst.. But when you read carefully you will get the answer in between story..

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 21 April 2020

Lovely writing. Enjoyable all the way.

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For whodunnit mystery lovers, buy this!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 10 January 2020

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For whodunnit mystery lovers, read this book!
The main characters are all likeable and the setting is good. There are more mysteries than the lock room, and the last puzzle is particularly brilliant. The thing that I love about this book is that the characters go through the possible theories that could have lead to certain crime scenes- their thought processes are really interesting!

Great work Locked Room International for translating this book, looking forwards to more!

tim wharton

Good mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 May 2017

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A nicely constructed mystery, with locked rooms and other classic devices, I'm not 100% convinced by the translation, which is sometimes a little clunky, but I'd recommend it to Dickson Carr fans.

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Kit Robson

Japanese Mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 July 2017

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Another Japanese detective story published by Locked room International. It kept my attention throughout.

Vincento Hughes

An excellent literary discover during 2021.

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on 13 May 2021

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“The Moai Island Puzzle” has essential ingredients for an excellent mistery: vivid ambiance; an isolated place; great characters; captivating story telling; crimes with many suspects; weak alibis and much reasons for anyelse to kill; and very importan objects in order to help the resolution of the riddles appear along the story. It offers, also, a crime considered like an impossible to be committed.

Timeline and logical reasoning are fundamental factors during the crime investigation. The author even challenge the reader when said to him that the puzzle pieces are all available and ask him if he had already deciphered who is the murderer. Excepting for those who bet in own intuiton, I believe that more than 90% do not manage to unveil the whole mistery.

I was one of that 90%, and I closed the book happy for reading such a original story, with such traditional elements. If you apreciate mistery stories and room sealed crimes, you should read “The Moai Island Puzzle”.

Danny De Laet

Superbe! A lire!!

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on 30 September 2016

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Superbe! A lire!! Excellent roman policier Japonais qui n'est pas sans rappeler Agatha Christie.mais alors la Christie des grands jours !

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