# Beast in the Shadows

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- Book: [Beast in the Shadows](https://www.bookquiver.com/edogawa-ranpo/beast-in-the-shadows) ([Beast in the Shadows.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edogawa-ranpo/beast-in-the-shadows.md))
- Authors: [Edogawa Rampo](https://www.bookquiver.com/edogawa-ranpo)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4165-691-4
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2023-07-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the only one who can find him. A sequence of macabre and appalling events follows.