Detective Edogawa Ranpo

The Beast is published by the Writers Association Publishing House and Linh Lan Books.

Previously, readers were familiar with The Blind Beast and The Human Chair. As a detective story enthusiast who has read detective stories for over 20 years, Nam Do - admin of the Detective Story Lovers Association (nearly 48,000 members) - said that Ranpo's detective stories are very suitable for the psychology of Vietnamese readers.

His stories combine detective crime solving with strange, erotic psychology, shaping a unique style in world detective literature.

For example, murderers stalking beautiful girls, or lonely men with nothing to do often appear in Ranpo's stories.

Vietnamese readers, especially young people today, like the strange psychological style, do not place too much emphasis on the logic of detective stories like in the West, and are willing to accept strange and supernatural elements combined into detective stories. All of these elements are very suitable for Ranpo's stories.

With its unique storytelling, Ranpo not only draws readers into thrilling cases but also raises profound questions about human nature.

His detective work is no longer a game of pure reason but becomes a journey to discover the darkest corners of the human soul.

Like the story of The Blind Beast, which tells the story of a blind artist who can only feel things through his hands. He longs to create a unique work of art, from the body parts of beautiful women.

Seven girls with seven different beauties were taken by him to his private room, then horrible murders occurred to serve a unique masterpiece of art. Each page of the book is imbued with a ghostly, melancholy and chilling beauty.

Born during Ranpo's most vigorous period, the novel Sound Beast reflects the unlimited creative spirit, going beyond the conventional stereotypes of detective literature, Ranpo's own escape, and at the same time shows the exchange between Japanese and Western culture in the early 20th century.

According to translator Phuong Pham, Edogawa Ranpo is famous for writing about very haunting instincts, but the new book Sound Beast is "truly terrifying".

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