謎の館へようこそ 黒 新本格３０周年記念アンソロジー (講談社タイガ)

by Riku Onda

「館」の謎は終わらない――。館に魅せられた作家たちが書き下ろす、色とりどりのミステリの未来！収録作品：はやみねかおる『思い出の館のショウシツ』恩田 陸『麦の海に浮かぶ檻』高田崇史『ＱＥＤ～ortus～　―鬼神の社―』綾崎 隼『時の館のエトワール』白井智之『首無館の殺人』井上真偽『囚人館の惨劇』

377 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 18, 2017

About the author

Riku Onda (Japanese name: 恩田 陸), born in 1964, is the professional name of Nanae Kumagai. She has been writing fiction since 1991 and has won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Japan Booksellers' Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been adapted for film and television. The Aosawa Murders was her first crime novel and the first time she was translated into English. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2020.

Reviews

[Life · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read mainly for the Shirai story here, "Murder at the Headless Mansion." It was decent, but not to the level of some of his other stuff. Insanely funny false solution though, reminiscent of a Kindaichi Case Files trick.
I also liked the other stories, my favourites would probably be Ayasaki Shun's "Etoile of the Time Mansion" and Inoue Magi's "The Tragedy of the Prison Mansion," both of which have very unconventional mystery elements, and I liked the way that they were used here. Takata Takashi's "The Shrine of the Demon God" was closer to a lecture on onis in Japanese history, but what mystery aspect was there was pretty cool. Not really a mansion mystery though. Onda Riku's "A Cage Floating in a Sea of Wheat" has a very dreamlike quality to it, that I also enjoyed. The solution and ending are both memorable. Hayamine Kaoru's "The Burning of the Mansion of Memories" was pretty funny, but unlike the others, it didn't have that much sticking power with me. Still, on the whole, do recommend this one.