The Black Lizard Edogawa Rampo

Name: The Black Lizard By Edogawa Rampo
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The Black Lizard by Edogawa Rampo

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The Black Lizard by Edogawa Rampo

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series

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...

About Edogawa Rampo

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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR013405473

ISBN 13

9780241645826

ISBN 10

0241645824

Title

The Black Lizard by Edogawa Rampo

Author

Edogawa Rampo

Series

Penguin Modern Classics - Crime & Espionage

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

2023-10-05

Number of pages

176

Prizes

N/A

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