The Black Lizard / Beast in the Shadows – Edogawa Rampo, Ian Hughes (Translator) Free Audiobook

Written by Edogawa Rampo, Ian Hughes (Translator)
Read by Kenichiro Thomson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Two Golden Age classics from Japan’s grand master of mystery. Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Taro, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan’s golden age of crime and mystery fiction. In the early part of his career, he created the Japanese gothic mystery, developing the work of Edgar Allan Poe and related nineteenth century writers in a distinctly Japanese form. This part of his career coincided with a great flowering in Japanese literature and culture, a relatively free and uninhibited popular press being a defining feature of the times. In this context, Rampo’s dark vision and extravagant grotesquery found an avid readership, and had a profound influence on other writers. The Black Lizard, a master criminal as deadly as she is beautiful, wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective. A mystery writer vows to protect the woman he secretly loves from the Beast in the Shadows, but disaster strikes when he turns detective himself.
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Beast in the Shadows

Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
Release date: 07-13-23
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The Black Lizard

Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 10-05-23