

For example, we know that the first one happens in “September 1920” while the last one of the book is dated “Spring 1923 (or 1922?)”. Each story is dated, sometimes approximatively, based on the information gathered in the stories. In the edition I bought, the stories are classified in order of occurrence rather than order of publication (though I don’t know if they differ much). Apart from that, I didn’t know what to expect. This is my first time reading Kogoro Akechi, and I only knew that Edogawa Rampo was an admirer of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and that Kogoro Akechi was inspired by Sherlock Holmes. It contains:įans of classic detective novels are bound to love these short stories, as they feature intriguing cases and reflexions on crime and techniques of investigation.

We start with the first book of the series, which is a collection of short stories.
