The Black Lizard: Edogawa Rampo (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage) - Softcover

Rampo, Edogawa

 
9780241645826: The Black Lizard: Edogawa Rampo (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241645824 ISBN 13: 9780241645826
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2023

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A master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle. Who will win?

They call her the 'Dark Angel'. Queen of Tokyo's underworld, Mme Midorikawa is famed for her beauty, her jewels and the tattoo of a black lizard on her arm. Crime is so easy for her that she warns her victims in advance. When a wealthy jewel merchant receives letters saying his precious daughter Sanae is about to be kidnapped, he entrusts the renowned detective Akechi Kogoro to protect her. But he may have met his deadliest adversary yet...

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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'.

Ian Hughes lived for many years in Japan, working first as an English teacher in the countryside before moving to Tokyo and becoming a professional translator. His fiction translations include Beast in the Shadows, another Edogawa Rampo classic.

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A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro. No trick is too elaborate, no disguise too fantastic as the two perfectly matched antagonists take turns to outwit each other.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241645824
ISBN 13 
9780241645826
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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