Yukito Ayatsuji’s
The Decagon House Murders was published in 1987, and is credited with kick-starting the
shin-honkaku (new orthodox) movement of murder mystery writing. Three (and a half) decades later, the genre is still going strong! There were several pieces and events in 2018 commemorating the 30-year anniversary of the influential work, and one of those was
The Seven Great Detectives, a collection containing short stories from seven
shin-honkaku writers.
