Rampo Edogawa
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1894-10-20 (71 years old)
Deathday
1965-07-28
Place of Birth
Mie, Japan
Also known As
平井 太郎
Tarō Hirai
Edogawa Ranpo
江户川乱步
Rampo Edogawa
Biography
Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎 Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pseudonym Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩), also romanized as Edogawa Rampo, was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" (少年探偵団 Shōnen tantei dan). Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, w...
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