The Black Lizard features detective Akechi Kogorõ.
This book contains the two novellas of Ranpo's. The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows But during and after the Second World War, he started to shift his audiences to a younger age range, created teenage detective stories, which gained fame for his character, Akechi Kogorō, and made him an even more notable writer. Peculiar storytelling, brutal and eroticism often have places in his work during his most active period. After his initial attempt for traditional "whodunit" novels, he started to show his personality in his works. But one other reason may be because, at his time, most writings are published in the newspaper, so it's harder to publish longer works, since newspaper serials will break the continuity of novels, and it's also not profitable. Besides Poe, Ranpo was also influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he created The Boy Detective Club as helpers to his iconic detective Akechi Kogorō, paying tribute to Baker Street Irregulars in the Sherlock Holmes series.Įdogawa Ranpo started as a short story writer because he believed that short stories are the epic format of mysteries. Deeply influenced by western mystery stories, Tarō Hirai took the romaji version of the name, Edgar Allan Poe, as his pseudonym, and built his legacy with the name Edogawa Ranpo.
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