Edogawa Ranpo

myth:edogawa_ranpo

Japan took up the form through Edogawa Ranpo — a pen-name that is the name 'Edgar Allan Poe' itself, spoken in Japanese. He founded the Japanese mystery and its honkaku, the orthodox fair-play puzzle, a tradition later renewed by the shin-honkaku writers and their ingenious locked rooms. The lineage written into a single borrowed name. — genre history