NABARI, Mie Prefecture--A shopkeeper found the only known pocket-book paperback edition of “Hitori Futayaku” (Double role) by mystery writer Edogawa Rampo (1894-1965) in an old warehouse in Kyoto.

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts ...

Hirai Taro—who would later become the famed mystery writer Edogawa Rampo—harbors an intense admiration for foreign mystery writers, yet he is still an unknown author who is barely making ends ...

Visualization based on Rampo's "Oshie and Traveling Man". Released in 1994 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Rampo's birth.