The Labyrinth Hall Incident is the third bullet in the Ayatsuji Yukichi-Rinkai-kan series. Judging from the structure of the whole story, the biggest difference between this book and the previous two works is that it no longer uses multiple perspectives to tell the story. There is no island inside or outside the island, no museum inside or outside the museum, and no past and present. The book uses a "play within a play" approach to narrate the event— Yetaro Miyagi, a famous mystery novelist who lives in the labyrinth hall, invites his four apprentices and several friends to his birthday party, but when everyone arrives, they hear the bad news of his suicide. In his last words, he said that his four apprentices would hand over a novel set in the labyrinth hall and victim in three days, and that the best writer would receive a huge inheritance. However, four people are murdered one after another in the way they died in their novels! As one of the guests, Shimada Jie seemed to have expected this to happen, because he knew that the builder of this labyrinth hall was Aoji Nakamura!
The biggest feature of "Labyrinth Hall Incident" is the story created by four writers based on the theme of their own murder.
The first work, "The Labyrinth symbolizes death and rebirth through the ages," "There is a man lying on his back on an ivory plush blanket, his stiff limbs twisted unnaturally, his cold ten fingers unnaturally open, and his life has fallen into the chaotic darkness and become a lump of flesh." "Death has an unusual fragrance more than other states of life." "The black ceiling is covered with geometric iron bars" "The light blue sunlight fades the dim night, and this alternating drama of light and darkness has been repeated since the ancient mythological era." "The title is called The First Rank of Minotaurs. Exactly like the first murder in reality, this elegant classical seductive text I have not seen in other works of Ayatsuji anyway, when I first encountered this work, I could not help but sigh that the author's writing is really as charming as he quoted the ancient Greek mythology, combined with the plan of this labyrinth museum, "Daedalus", "Icarus", "Minos", "Medea". In the trance of a dream, in the realm of the combination of ancient Greek mythology and labyrinth hall, there is a feeling of being deeply immersed in it.
The second work—the opening is again a suffocating narration—"He finds himself wandering alone in the labyrinth of darkness" "He stops, turns his head, and the long corridor extends into the distance, eventually engulfed in darkness. "I thought it was another work, but it turned out to be a false alarm. But when the reader just breathed a long breath, Utasayama woke up again from his sleep, and this paragraph, including the opening suggestions of each work, was put into the evening reading, and when the atmosphere of the realistic scene was similar to that in the book, there would be a completely different sense of suffocation. After that, the pace of the book continued to accelerate, and the third and fourth works of the night also arrived, forming a perfect art of the killing hall.
The whole book is full of the romance of Greek mythology, it seems that I can feel the fragrance of lavender, and with the floor plan of the Western-style house at hand, I feel the pleasure that I have never experienced when reading other speculative novels, the plot is compact, unpredictable, unpredictable, and it is not so vividly reflected in several other museums as in this one. As a classic Benguet speculative novel, the sentence "The murderer is among us", always can arouse the passion of detective novel fans to reason and solve the case, the special ending of the "Labyrinth Hall Incident" has given people multiple reversal experiences, do not read the last word of the novel will never understand the final truth, although there are always people who criticize some of the plots designed in the book are not fair enough for the reader, but this does not affect the wonderful trick design of the whole book, as the author said, April 1st to make an April Fool's Day joke, too real is not good Reading this book is like opening the Pandora's box of the museum series, completely unable to escape the traps and temptations of the museum series, and it is impossible to control it at once, and the top three masterpieces of the museum series in my heart are in my heart.