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The Black Lizard features Rampo's main detective character, Akechi Kogorō: a figure who combines elements of Poe’s Auguste Dupin with the gentleman adventurers of British golden age detective literature. The Black Lizard herself is a master criminal and femme fatale, whose charged relationship with detective Akechi and unconcealed sadism have inspired shuddering admiration in generations of readers. Beast in the Shadows is a tale of secret identities, violent sexuality, and dark crimes that stands in stark contrast to the genteel detective stories popular in English literature of the 1920s.Pages of The Black Lizard and Beast In the Shadows :