Beast in the Shadows

by Edogawa Rampo · 1928

A detective novelist meets the beautiful wife of a businessman, who is being blackmailed by the reclusive horror writer Oe Shundei, her former lover. When the husband is found drowned and the letters keep coming, the narrator is drawn into a hunt where every clue seems lifted from Shundei's own stories.

Books mentioned in Beast in the Shadows (1)

• Henmeden by Hirotsu Ryuro: “From seven o'clock to seven-thirty you leaned on the small desk in your bedroom and read a novel. It was a short story collection by Hirotsu Ryuro, and of it you finished only 'Henmeden'. [auto-translated]”