Yin Beast
About This Novel
"The Yin Beast" is the fourth volume of "Edogawa Ranpo's Collection of Works", which contains four mystery novellas by Edogawa Ranpo. In Ranpo's creative career of more than 40 years, there were only four novellas. "The Yin Beast" is Luan Bu's first work after he stopped writing. The protagonists of the story are two mystery novelists who belong to the original school and the changed school. One is the narrator of the story, "I" Hanchuan, and the other is Oe Chunni. The last protagonist is a beautiful woman, Shizuko. One day Hanchuan met Shizuko in the museum. Afterwards, the two exchanged letters. A few months later, Jingzi was threatened by Chunni and asked "I" for help. Soon after, Rokuro was killed. How did Hanchuan reason, who was the murderer, and who was Oe Chunni? This is a masterpiece of original mystery novels that combines eroticism, strangeness, absurdity (characteristics of Taisho period popular culture) and reasoning. One of Ranpo's masterpieces.
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Official(7)Scraped 4d ago
Well written and the reasoning makes sense.
Good reviews
The endings of famous works are surprising, and imitations can still be found in many mystery novels today.
Yin beast
I started to think that if I write about a dark voyeur, I won't be surprised at what he will do. After the reversal, it can only be said to be ridiculous. Very unexpected
A good book with rich content
It's so beautiful, but I just can't see it anymore. . . I can't even buy it. I really want to see it.
This work is very classic!
A very good book
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Community(0)
Official(7)Scraped 4d ago
Well written and the reasoning makes sense.
Good reviews
The endings of famous works are surprising, and imitations can still be found in many mystery novels today.
Yin beast
I started to think that if I write about a dark voyeur, I won't be surprised at what he will do. After the reversal, it can only be said to be ridiculous. Very unexpected
A good book with rich content
It's so beautiful, but I just can't see it anymore. . . I can't even buy it. I really want to see it.
This work is very classic!
A very good book
