Two Golden Age classics from Japan's grand master of mystery.
Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the
acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and
mystery fiction. In the early part of his career, he created the
Japanese gothic mystery, developing the work of Edgar Allan Poe and
related nineteenth century writers in a distinctly Japanese form.
This part of his career coincided with a great flowering in
Japanese literature and culture, a relatively free and uninhibited
popular press being a defining feature of the times. In this
context, Rampo's dark vision and extravagant grotesquery found an
avid readership, and had a profound influence on other writers. The
Black Lizard, a master criminal as deadly as she is beautiful,
wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective. A mystery
writer vows to protect the woman he secretly loves from the Beast
in the Shadows, but disaster strikes when he turns detective
himself.
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