Discontinuous Murder Incident
by J
About This Novel
The winner of the 2nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, Edogawa Ranpo and Matsumoto Seicho praised and recommended; the only full-length detective mystery novel by the post-war "honkaku" Ango Sakaguchi, an immortal masterpiece in the history of Japanese mystery novels, the prototype character of the super popular Japanese animation "Bungou Stray Dogs", the original novel of the Japanese movie "Serial Murder", a representative writer of the "rogue faction" as famous as Dazai Osamu, a literary master highly respected by Kawabata Yasunari and Mishima Yukio. "Continuous Murder" is the only full-length mystery novel written by Ango Sakaguchi. It subverts common sense criminal methods and inner games, and solves the shocking conspiracy behind eight murder cases. It is an immortal masterpiece in the history of Japanese mystery novels. The author sets the background of the story in the summer of 1947. At the mountain villa of Utagawa Tamon, a large Japanese conglomerate at that time, there were more than 20 scholars, poets, writers, doctors, etc. Who came to spend the summer. The interpersonal relationships were complicated and entangled with love and hatred. After receiving the threatening letter, eight murders occurred one after another, and the Utagawa family was destroyed. Throughout the process, the author does not use the "alibi" and "impossible crime" routines commonly used in mystery novels. It is obvious that the crimes are committed continuously, but it makes people unable to see a consistent motive, and even cannot predict the next victim. But there is a shocking conspiracy behind these murders. When this mystery novel was first serialized, the author attached a "Challenge to Readers" at the end of each article, stating that whoever guessed the murderer would pay his royalties. Osamu Dazai also participated in the guessing of the murderer, but unfortunately the challenge failed. After the novel was officially published, it won the Novel Award at the 2nd Detective Writers Club Award (later renamed the "Mystery Writers Association Award") in the second month. It became a model work of Japan's postwar "honkaku" mystery novels and has been popular in Japan for more than half a century.
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You should read it slowly when you have some free time to understand it.
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Perhaps it was novel at the time, but the tricks in the book are no longer new from today's perspective. Just take a look
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Official(2)Scraped 1d ago
You should read it slowly when you have some free time to understand it.
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Perhaps it was novel at the time, but the tricks in the book are no longer new from today's perspective. Just take a look
