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Beast in the Shadows

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Beast in the Shadows

Contributors:

By (Author) Edogawa Rampo
Translated by Ian Hughes

ISBN:

9780241656914

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:

Penguin Classics

Publication Date:

25th July 2023

UK Publication Date:

13th July 2023

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Thriller / suspense fiction
Fiction in translation
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives

Dewey:

895.6344

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

112

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 7mm

Weight:

90g

Description

A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the only one who can find him. A sequence of macabre and appalling events follows.

Author Bio

Edogawa Rampo was the pseudonym of Taro Hirai (1894-1965), generally viewed as the greatest of all Japanese suspense and mystery authors. He was a prolific novelist and short story writer. Much influenced by writers such as Conan Doyle, Chesterton and Wells, his pseudonym is a Japanese transliteration of Edgar Allen Poe's name. Many of his works have been made into films. Perhaps his most famous stories outside Japan are 'The Caterpillar' and 'The Human Chair'.

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