Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo Paperback Book 9780241656914

The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouthwatering prospect Daily TelegraphA mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves But is he hunter or huntedThe 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 exlover 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