Beast in the Shadows (Paperback)

Paperback. A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fictionA 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.