The Decagon House Murders and 8 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadA murder mystery, a traveling salesman, and some really big candy bars.

Yukito Ayatsuji, trans. from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong. Locked Room International (lockedroominternational.com), $19.99 trade paper (230p) ISBN 978-1-508503-73-6 First published in 1987, Ayatsuji’s ...

In Ayatsuji’s The Decagon House Murders, seven mystery writers are trapped on a Japanese island with a fiendishly clever killer. What appeals to you about puzzle mysteries? At 11, I first read Ellery ...

When strict planning conditions mean he can only build a house one storey high, Henry and his architect come up with a bizarre design that makes the most of the plot and available light - a series of ...