Bøger af Edogawa Rampo

Can an ace detective outwit a thief with many faces?They call him 'Gold Mask': a fiendishly clever master of disguise whose crime spree has shocked Tokyo. The dogged detective Akechi Kogoro is on the trail, and soon the two become locked in a frenzied battle of wits as his seemingly superhuman nemesis leads a chase across Japan, gleefully tricking the police at every turn. Will this ingenious villain's true identity be revealed - and will he, eventually, make a mistake?

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA 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.

A master criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro.

Seis historias a cual más retorcida y macabra del maestro del horror japonés del siglo XX: Edogawa Rampo. En ellas encontramos el deseo sexual más grotesco, muñecas que provocan celos, asesinos por aburrimiento y un gusto por lo repugnante característico en este emblemático autor de terror japonés.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Edogawa Rampo es un autor japonés nacido en 1894 y fallecido en 1965. Pseudónimo de Hirai Taro, se lo considera del creador del género policial moderno en Japón. Su dilatada carrera abarca más de veinte años siendo uno de los autores más prolíficos y conocidos de historias de crimen y misterio. Hoy en día se lo considera un imprescindible en estos géneros, tanto en Japón como a nivel internacional.

Edogawa Rampo is the pen name of Japanese author Hirai Taro. Influenced in his early career by Western mystery writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he is one of Japan's most famous authors, and a true master of the short story form. This collection brings you a selection of his finest work, including 'The Human Chair' and 'The Hell Of Mirrors'.