体育館の殺人

Locked room mystery set in a highschool

Such a fun mystery read!! There is a huge cast of characters and it's kinda hard to keep up with all the names but I loved the main cast so much. I also really love the challenge for the readers to solve the mystery themselves!! very interactive and super enjoyable. Before starting this though please keep in mind that this is a young adult at the end of the day so please suspend any disbelief cause some of the events here really are absurd. Like, come on, this is about a highschool locked room

Basic plot: Student found dead in the gym. Whodunit?

Audiobook: The audiobook for this has low production quality, but it's faithful to the text. If you don't mind bad mixing, it's useable for the reading/listening method.

Difficulty: There is a scattering of anime references and such that weren't meaningful to me, but which also weren't meaningful to the other characters in the book so in terms of difficulty can probably be safely ignored. It might be a bonus if there are referenc

A logic puzzle in book form

This is a honkaku mystery, and the reader can really deduce the solution to the mystery after having been presented with all the facts. That's the only pleasure I got out of the book though, and even those facts were often tedious to read the first time, and definitely tedious to go over again when trying to work out the solution.

This could have been a good short story, but in my opinion it was way too long for what it offered, which was a long list of alibis and other dry facts among a lot of