Murder in the Crooked House

The Crooked House sits alone on a snowbound cliff at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself: a maze of sloping floors and strange staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny dolls.

Christmas, 1983. Kozaburo Hamamoto, the aging ‘lord’ of the strange Crooked House, is hosting a grand gathering for his relatives. But when one of them is found murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. They are unable to solve the puzzle, and more unsettling deaths follow as the guests start seeing bizarre sights on the estate.

Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the eccentric fortune teller, psychic and self-styled detective. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders it is him. But you have all the clues too – can you solve the mystery of the murders in the Crooked House first?