The Moai Island Puzzle

In his introduction, Soji Shimada, the doyen of the Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction known as shin honkaku, calls this novel a masterpiece and Publisher's Weekly gives it a starred review.Three students from Eito University in Kyoto travel to a remote island populated with moai statues in order to find a hidden treasure, but several murders-including one impossible--occur before it can be located. Don't be fooled by the bland description. The locked room murder is brilliant and...