Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows
Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows Two Golden Age classics from Japan's grand master of mystery. In the early part of his career, he created the Japanese gothic mystery, developing the work of…
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Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows
Two Golden Age classics from Japan's grand master of mystery. 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. Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction.
In this context, Rampo's dark vision and extravagant grotesquery found an avid readership, and had a profound influence on other writers. 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. 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.
Standing in the Shadows
SILENCE IN THE SHADOWS
War in the Shadows
Beauty and the Beast
Bookish and the Beast
Agent in the Shadows
The Beast in the Jungle
Bookish and the Beast
Brazen and the Beast
The Bride and the Beast
In the Belly of the Beast