Lean-to Crime
by H
About This Novel
At the northern tip of Japan, on a cliff overlooking the Sea of Okhotsk, there is a strange-looking building called the "Drift Ice Pavilion". It is called "The Leaning House" by the locals because of its weird sloping structure. On a snowy Christmas Eve, the owner Kozaburo Hamato poses a puzzle at the party. Whoever solves the meaning of the mysterious totem in the flower bed first will be eligible to marry Kozaburo's daughter Eiko and inherit a huge inheritance! Unexpectedly, for two consecutive nights, secret room cases occurred one after another in the museum! The deceased was stabbed into the heart with a sharp blade and died. A "death message" painted in blood was left next to the body, which was complex and twisted like "dancing"! The second deceased was attacked from behind in a locked room! However, everyone has a complete alibi. What is even weirder is that after the deceased was killed, someone actually saw the doll "Graeme" collected by Kozaburo outside the third-floor window that was vacated!
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Official(10)Scraped 22d ago
It looks pretty good
The plot is impossible to figure out. The leaning house is too complicated and I still don't understand it. Prisoners are particularly easy to guess. The writing is sometimes awkward.
Pretty gorgeous
The murderer can be seen at a glance, and the motive is ignored. The design is wild and unrealistic, but it has to be said that the method is quite awesome.
The murderer is easy to guess, and the three-dimensional building is too complex, so it's difficult to reason on your own, but I can still make a guess by just guessing.
Even if you know who the murderer is, even if you know the "game" laid out by Mitarai, you will still see it until the end. The ingenuity of using architectural structures to kill people is indeed thoughtful, and this is also the uniqueness of this book.
The plot is impossible to figure out. The leaning house is too complicated and I still don't understand it. Prisoners are particularly easy to guess. The writing is sometimes awkward.
Shinsaburo does have a conspiracy, and the doll Graham doesn't sound like a good guy. The mysterious totems and marriage in the flower bed are probably just a cover. The people who are recruited are so pitiful
The manner of death of the deceased was so strange, and everyone had an alibi. This couldn't be a mass murder, after all, it couldn't be that coincidental, and it wasn't even framed.
Let me go, is this sloping house so scary? With so many people dead, I feel like this museum owner is uneasy and kind-hearted. This secret room incident is a bit scary. I don't know who the murderer is.
Feeling
Mitarai is still clean hahaha I like his craziness; it is not difficult to push the villain, but the technique is a little more difficult, the construction tricks, you can see
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Official(10)Scraped 22d ago
It looks pretty good
The plot is impossible to figure out. The leaning house is too complicated and I still don't understand it. Prisoners are particularly easy to guess. The writing is sometimes awkward.
Pretty gorgeous
The murderer can be seen at a glance, and the motive is ignored. The design is wild and unrealistic, but it has to be said that the method is quite awesome.
The murderer is easy to guess, and the three-dimensional building is too complex, so it's difficult to reason on your own, but I can still make a guess by just guessing.
Even if you know who the murderer is, even if you know the "game" laid out by Mitarai, you will still see it until the end. The ingenuity of using architectural structures to kill people is indeed thoughtful, and this is also the uniqueness of this book.
The plot is impossible to figure out. The leaning house is too complicated and I still don't understand it. Prisoners are particularly easy to guess. The writing is sometimes awkward.
Shinsaburo does have a conspiracy, and the doll Graham doesn't sound like a good guy. The mysterious totems and marriage in the flower bed are probably just a cover. The people who are recruited are so pitiful
The manner of death of the deceased was so strange, and everyone had an alibi. This couldn't be a mass murder, after all, it couldn't be that coincidental, and it wasn't even framed.
Let me go, is this sloping house so scary? With so many people dead, I feel like this museum owner is uneasy and kind-hearted. This secret room incident is a bit scary. I don't know who the murderer is.
Feeling
Mitarai is still clean hahaha I like his craziness; it is not difficult to push the villain, but the technique is a little more difficult, the construction tricks, you can see
