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Tag: Kogoro Akechi Series

Book review: 『少年探偵団|黒蜥蜴』by Edogawa Rampo

This book contains two of the most famous novels by Edogawa Rampo: the Black Lizard and the Boy Detectives Club. I enjoyed both, but I found the Boy Detectives Club to be more engrossing and exciting, even though it is written for children.

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Book review: 『大金塊|怪人二十面相』by Edogawa Rampo

This book contains two short novels from the Boy Detectives Club series. Even though they are books for children, they were very pleasant to read!

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『人間豹』by Edogawa Rampo

This novel is about the confrontation between Kogoro Akechi and a mysterious man leopard. It was an entertaining read, not my favourite but quite good.

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Book review: 『黄金仮面』 by Edogawa Rampo

This novel is one of my least favourite of the series so far. I found the end quite good, but the novel also felt very repetitive after a while.

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『吸血鬼』by Edogawa Rampo

This is the seventh book in the Kogoro Akechi collection and my favourite so far!

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Book review: 『魔術師』 by Edogawa Rampo

Good mystery, spooky scenes, suspense… this book is a delight for fans of the detective and horror genres.

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Book review: 『猟奇の果』 by Edogawa Rampo

I did not like this novel as much as the other Akechi stories, but even though I have much to criticise, it was still an enjoyable read.

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Book review: 『蜘蛛男』 by Edogawa Rampo

『蜘蛛男』 is the first novel in the Kogoro Akechi series. A suspenseful battle against the most devilish villain we have seen so far!

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Book review: 『一寸法師|何者』 by Edogawa Rampo

This is the second book in the Kogoro Akechi series. It contains two novellas: 一寸法師 and 何者.

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Book review: 『D坂の殺人事件…』 by Edogawa Rampo

As a fan of classic detective stories, I loved this book! It is a collection of five short stories that introduce Kogoro Akechi, Japan’s first recurring fictional detective.

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    无证之罪 by Zijin Chen (紫金陈)
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🎧 Listened to an audiobook in Chinese (a detective story for children), it’s much harder than reading! But it’s fun to try to catch some words and sentences.

1 December 2023 @ 2:10 pm

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😌 After being woken up during the night by the emergency alert (quite a scary experience), I am grateful for an uneventful day! (The alert was for a 4.0 earthquake in Gyeongju).
📖 Finished my Chinese novel!!
🧘🏻‍♀️ Workout.

30 November 2023 @ 2:17 pm

I finished 无证之罪 by 紫金陈 (The Untouched Crime by Zijin Chen, translated by Michelle Deeter)!
Not only was it 100% the kind of stories I enjoy reading, but it was also easy to read, and using vocabulary I’m familiar with.
It reminded me of Keigo Higashino, not just because the pattern and style felt similar, but because Higashino is the first author I read in Japanese. Now I have a similar experience with Chinese!

30 November 2023 @ 8:40 am

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    Update on the books that I have tried to read, am reading, and will read in Chinese.

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Author: Mikito Chinen (知念実希人)

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