Edogawa Rampo by Rampo Edogawa

Author:Rampo Edogawa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Japanese crime, detective, Japanese literature, Showa, ero-guro
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-11-25T05:00:00+00:00

Notes on the Stories, Based on the Author's Afterwords

The Case of the Murder on D. Hill

The neighborhood of “D. Hill” is a fictionalized representation of Dangozaka (“Dumpling Hill”), located in Bunkyō Ward in modern day Tokyo. Two or three years prior to beginning his career as a novelist, Rampo operated a small secondhand bookstore in Dangozaka called the “Trio Bookshop,” and his memories of that shop became the basis for the scene of the crime in “The Case of the Murder on D. Hill.”[15]

The gaps in a board fence running beside the railway tracks in the small town of Moriguchi, where Rampo lived at the time, suggested the “trick” of the striped yukata and the lattice to him, and it was from this idea that he began composing the story. A later comment that such a coincidence would be ‘unnatural’ led him to give the story its present form.[16]

Rampo’s explicit reference to Hakuryū as a model led many of his contemporaries to assume an acquaintance between the two, but in fact they never met or corresponded, despite Rampo’s growing notoriety and stated fondness for Hakuryū’s performances.[17]

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