The Strange Tale of Panorama Island

Suehiro Maruo Edogawa Rampo First published 2012

About this book

Follows the twisted path of failed novelist Hitomi Hirosuke, who bears an uncanny resemblance to a former classmate, the son of a rich industrialist family. Learning of the rich man's sudden passing, Hitomi fakes his own death, digs up and hides the other man's body, and then washes himself up on a beach near the home of the dead man's family.

Subjects

  • comic books, strips
  • comics & graphic novels, crime & mystery
  • comics & graphic novels, manga, crime & mystery
  • false personation
  • hedonism