Japanese cult detective story. It's about a university student detective club that takes a week off to investigate a mysterious crime on an offshore island. They occupy an excentric ten-sided building and they are killed, one after the other, by an unknown revenge-seeking murderer. Each one assumes the name of a famous detective story writer: Poe, Ellery, Doyle, Orczy, Agatha. On the first day they fight among themselves to establish the ranking, and after that, they are more comfortable. Very Japanese. I am at mid-book and suspect that the motive is secret non-paternity. Very rare in Japan but most human.
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