Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo

Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph

A mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted?

The chance meeting between a crime novelist and a married woman blossoms into friendship. When she confides to him that she has been receiving threatening and sadistic letters from an ex-lover, who says he is watching her in the shadows, he knows he must help her. But the trail unexpectedly leads to another writer, Oe Shundei, the mysterious and secretive author of works of grotesque violence. Suddenly nothing is as it seems, and nobody is safe.

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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ISBN 13	9780241656914
ISBN 10	0241656915
Title	Beast in the Shadows
Author	Edogawa Rampo
Series	Penguin Modern Classics - Crime And Espionage
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2023-07-13
Number of pages	112
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