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**One of Willard's weapons, [[Van Dine's Commandments]], is taken from Willard Huntington Wright's [http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7932401/Van%20Dine%27s%20Twenty%20Rules%20for%20Writing%20Detective%20Stories Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories].
*[[Lion Ushiromiya]] and Willard call each other "Watson" and "Holmes", direct references to the famous [[Wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock Holmes]] franchise.
*In {{end}}, both [[w:Soji Shimada|Soji Shimada's]] ''[[w:The Tokyo Zodiac Murders|The Tokyo Zodiac Murders]]'' and [[w:Ango Sakaguchi|Ango Sakaguchi's]] ''Furenzoku satsujin jiken''
*In {{end}}, the authors [[w:Yukito Ayatsuji|Yukito Ayatsuji]] and [[w:Ellery Queen|Ellery Queen]] are directly referenced.
*Much of {{umineko}} draws inspiration from [[Wikipedia:Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie's]] ''[[Wikipedia:And Then There Were None|And Then There Were None]]''.
**The setting of an island cut off from the rest of the world due to a storm occurs in both ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni'' and ''And Then There Were None''.
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