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decagon

[dek-uh-gon, -guhn] / ˈdɛk əˌgɒn, -gən /


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As honkaku grandmaster Soji Shimada generously writes in the book’s introduction, “Death Among the Undead” is as groundbreaking as his own masterpiece, “The Tokyo Zodiac Murders,” or Yukito Ayatsuji’s dazzling “The Decagon House Murders.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022

One is the Blue House, now a burned-out ruin, and the other is the Decagon House, designed with 10 sides surrounding a common room, with 10 identical doors opening off that central area.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015

From this club emerged a number of important new writers, among them Yukito Ayatsuji, who brought out “The Decagon House Murders” in 1987.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015

As in many older mysteries, we are given a map of the island and a diagram of the Decagon House.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2015

Decagon, dek′a-gon, n. a plane figure of ten angles and sides.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various




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