月光游戏

Egami Jiro #1

by Alice Arisugawa, 有栖川有栖

夏合宿のために矢吹山のキャンプ場へやってきた英都大学推理小説研究会の面々――江神部長や有栖川有栖らの一行を、予想だにしない事態が待ち構えていた。矢吹山が噴火し、偶然一緒になった三グループの学生たちは、一瞬にして陸の孤島と化したキャンプ場に閉じ込められてしまったのだ。その極限状況の中、まるで月の魔力に誘われでもしたように出没する殺人鬼。その魔の手にかかり、ひとり、またひとりとキャンプ仲間が殺されていく……。いったい犯人は誰なのか？　そして、現場に遺されたＹの意味するものは何？　平成のエラリー・クイーン＝有栖川有栖の記念すべきデビュー長編。

Genres: Mystery

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Also See 有栖川 有栖.

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a decent locked-room-mystery, not terribly great but not bad at all, suitable for young/students audiences.

[CJ Tillman · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some really stellar parts of this, I liked all the talk about the effects of the moon and how the characters use famous mystery novels to try to solve their own mystery, but a lot of this feels really sloppy. There are way to many characters that are called a bunch of different nicknames (which is actually serves a specific point in the story) which makes a lot of this hard to follow at times. There are so many throwaway characters that seem to be added to pad out the suspects. Other than that it was pretty fun and I liked the mystery and resolution enough.