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Beast in the Shadows

Edogawa Rampo (author), Ian Hughes (translator)

Paperback Published on: 13/07/2023; Language: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)

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Bookseller Reviews

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Classic Japanese crime mystery

Part of the first wave of titles in Penguin's Crime and Espionage series, an homage to the green classics I remember seeing on my mother's bookcase when I ... READ MORE

Alan M

Golden age classic crime

Written in 1928, this is golden age crime at it's best. This novella from Rampo is told from the viewpoint of a crime author who is approached by a woman ... READ MORE

Jo Morpeth

Classic crime, with its dark side

An authentically chilling novella, and wonderfully timeless — as the very best crime fiction should be. Even with its own distinctive voice, it bears great... READ MORE

Phill - Waterstones Bookseller

A short, engaging and tense novella!

This was a short, succinct, and engaging story just under 100 pages. I flew through this and I found the mixture between prose and letters to be really int... READ MORE

IndiaReadsALot

Synopsis

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.

Publisher information

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241656914
Number of pages: 112
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 8 mm
Weight: 404g
Languages: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)

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I'd recommend it

Filled with thought-out and incredible twists; each chapter keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is quite short too, so you can read it in one sitting. I... READ MORE

Ray Stadnik

engrossing, surprising and an absolute bombshell

this novel made me realise that what i want to do in life is to become a detective. edogawa rampo i must say is one of the most interesting crime novelists... READ MORE

ᯓ★ tanisha