Perhaps something was lost in translation — but I really couldn’t get in to this variation on the Agatha Christie plot.

I only made it about half way through the book.

The Decagon House Murders (十角館の殺人, Jukkakukan no Satsujin) is a 1987 Japanese mystery novel, the debut work of author Yukito Ayatsuji.

Borrowing its basic plot structure from Agatha Christie‘s And Then There Were None (Christie’s book is directly referenced by some of the characters at several points), it tells the story of a group of seven university students who travel to a deserted island that was the scene of a grisly mass murder six months earlier, where events soon turn ominous.