'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph
A 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.
| ISBN: | 9780241656914 |
| Publication date: | 13th July 2023 |
| Author: | Ranpo Edogawa |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic crime and mystery fiction Fiction in translation Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives Thriller and Suspense |
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph
A 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.
Beast in the Shadows features in the following genres: Classic crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Thriller and Suspense
Beast in the Shadows is available in Paperback
Beast in the Shadows was written by Ranpo Edogawa and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Beast in the Shadows has 112 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
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