Magic spell of the moon. RAMPO E.

Edogava Rampo (real name of the Taro Hirai) is the founder of the detective genre in Japanese literature of the 20th century, who has adopted the best techniques of the classics of this direction (Edgar, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie) on national ground. Like Edgar software, thanks to which the literary pseudonym of the writer appeared, Edogava Rampo has a work where the place is located irrational and terrible. These are the stories “Magic spell of the Moon”, “The Man-Capes” and others.

The main character of many works of the author, the detective of Koro Akyti, determined the main method that helps him in his work: "To reveal the crime, no puzzling puzzles and ingenious machines are needed... We must be able to come up with a question." This seemingly simple way made the famous many literary detectives along with their creators, and we can safely add to this series Khuro Aketi and Edogav Rampo.