The Temptation of the Maze Mansion

Author: Keigo Higashino
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The veteran mystery writer, Keigo Higashino, invites his four talented protégés to his birthday party at the Maze Mansion, a labyrinth-like building. However, when the four writers arrive, the elderly Mr. Miyake is found dead. In his will, he instructs them to write a novel within five days, set in the "Maze Mansion" and featuring themselves as the victims. The one who writes the best will inherit his entire fortune. Naturally, the four writers put their minds to it, but they are soon killed one by one, and their deaths mirror the fates in their own novels. This is the third book in Keigo Higashino's "Mansion Series," which features nested stories within stories, filled with suspense and intrigue, and has been highly acclaimed by critics and readers alike!