Boy Detectives Club

Edogawa Ranpo is the pen name (derived from Edgar Allan Poe) of Taro Hirai (1894–1965), a tireless promoter of the mystery genre in Japan. He is best remembered for his highly influential Kogoro Akechi and Boy Detectives Club novels, published between 1936 and 1962. The Boy Detectives Club stories overlap with Edogawa's Fiend with Twenty Faces series, the Fiend being a master of disguise and Detective Akechi's nemesis.