The Labyrinth House Murders

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A group of guests is trapped in a house designed as a labyrinth — rooms that rearrange, corridors that loop, and a floor plan that seems to change when you're not looking. When the murders begin, detective Kiyoshi Shimada must solve a puzzle where the crime scene itself is a weapon, and the architecture is as unreliable as any witness. Ayatsuji's standalone mystery doubles down on the architectural obsession of his House series, using the labyrinth as both literal setting and narrative technique — the reader, like the detective, must navigate a structure designed to mislead. The fair-play rules hold: every clue is planted, every solution is logical. A locked-room mystery where the room won't stay locked — and the house itself might be the killer.