Лунные зайчики смерти. Трагедия 1988 года (#1)

YaPONSKYY PEREVAL DYaTLOVA ODYN YZ SAMYKh KULTOVYKh KhONKAKU-TsYKLOVOT OSNOVATELYa Y PERVOGO PREZYDENTA KLUBA KhONKAKUELYS ARYSUGAVA - VTOROY PO YZVESTNOSTY POSLE SODZY SYMADY AVTOR YaPONSKYKh NEOKLASSYChESKYKh DETEKTYVNYKh GOLOVOLOMOKLAUREAT PREMYY KhONKAKU, A TAKZhE PREMYY «DETEKTYVNYE PYSATELY YaPONYY» y «YaPONSKAYa DETEKTYVNAYa LYTERATURA»Vulkan zasypaet. Prosypaetsya ubyytsa…Gruppa studentov, sredy kotorykh chetvero uchastnykov Kluba yzuchenyya detektyvov yz Kyoto, razbyvaet lager na spyashchem vulkane Yabukyyama. Pod prekrasnoy polnoy lunoy ony beseduyut u kostra y ygrayut v rassledovanye ubyystv, po zhrebyyu vybyraya, kto yz nykh budet ubyytsey, a kto zhertvoy. Kazhetsya, delo ydet k druzhbe, kotoraya ostanetsya na vsyu zhyzn. No ydyllyya prevrashchaetsya v koshmar…Vulkan prosypaetsya, yzverzhenyem zavalyvaet put vnyz: ony otrezany ot myra. Y v etot moment odnogo yz nykh ubyvayut po-nastoyashchemu. Na zemle ryadom s telom obnaruzhyvaetsya bukva Y. Chto eto? Podpys ubyytsy? Yly ukazyvayushchee na nego predsmertnoe poslanye zhertvy? V atmosfere zhutkoy zagadky myr druzhby y bezzabotnosty rushytsya, ustupaya mesto podozrenyyam, strakhu y otchayannomu poysku ystyny…Eta zhertva ne budet edynstvennoy. Avtor v luchshykh tradytsyyakh khonkaku brosaet chytatelyu vyzov: vy znaete rovno stolko, skolko znaet tot, kto razgadaet ubyystvennuyu golovolomku; smozhete ly sdelat eto samy?_____________________________________________________________«Ukazat prychynu pryvlekatelnosty myra Arysugavy ne tak uzh slozhno. Ystochnyk ocharovanyya zdes ochevyden. Ego samye yzvestnye detektyvy — chleny unyversytetskogo kruzhka po yzuchenyyu detektyvnykh romanov. Ony stalkyvayutsya s zaputannymy ubyystvamy y berutsya za ykh rassledovanye. Uchastnyky kruzhka bolshe vsego lyubyat trudnye zadachy, logycheskye golovolomky y sorevnuyutsya drug s drugom v razgadyvanyy tayn. Takym obrazom, knygy Arysugavy — o molodosty, chto delaet ykh dostupnymy, legkymy dlya vospryyatyya. No v to zhe vremya ony garantyruyut yntellektualnoe napryazhenye na urovne luchshykh veshchey Zolotogo veka detektyva. Blagodarya takomu vot paradoksu Arysugava polzuetsya ogromnoy populyarnostyu». — Sodzy Symada, genyy sovremennogo khonkaku.

THE JAPANESE DYATLOV PASS IS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC HONKAKU CYCLONES OF THE FOUNDER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE HONKAKUELIS ARISUGAWA CLUB, THE SECOND MOST FAMOUS AUTHOR OF JAPANESE NEOCLASSICAL DETECTIVE PUZZLES AFTER SOJI SHIMADA, WINNER OF THE HONKAKU PRIZE, AS WELL AS THE DETECTIVE WRITERS OF JAPAN AND JAPANESE DETECTIVE LITERATURE AWARDSThe volcano is falling asleep. The killer wakes up…A group of students, including four members of the Kyoto Detective Study Club, are camping on the dormant Yabukiyama volcano. Under a beautiful full moon, they talk around a campfire and play murder investigation, choosing by lot which of them will be the killer and which will be the victim. It seems that we are heading towards a friendship that will last a lifetime. But the idyll turns into a nightmare... the volcano wakes up, an eruption blocks the way down: they are cut off from the world. And at that moment, one of them is being killed for real. The letter Y is found on the ground next to the body. What's it? The killer's signature? Or the victim's suicide note pointing at him? In an atmosphere of terrible mystery, the world of friendship and carefree collapses, giving way to suspicion, fear and a desperate search for the truth.…This sacrifice will not be the only one. The author, in the best honkaku tradition, challenges the reader: do you know exactly as much as the one who solves the murderous puzzle knows; can you do it yourself?_____________________________________________________________"It's not too difficult to point out the reason for the attractiveness of Arisugawa's world. The source of the charm here is obvious. His most famous detectives are members of the university circle for the study of detective novels. They encounter intricate murders and take up their investigation. The participants of the circle are most fond of difficult tasks, logical puzzles and compete with each other in solving mysteries. Thus, Arisugawa's books are about youth, which makes them accessible and easy to read. But at the same time, they guarantee an intellectual tension on the level of the best things of the Golden Age of the detective. Thanks to this paradox, Arisugawa is very popular." — Soji Shimada, the genius of modern honkaku.