Strange Tale of Panorama Island - Hardcoverby Edogawa Ranpo (Author), Elaine Kazu Gerbert (Translator) Edogawa Ranpo (1894 1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and the bizarre to explore the boundaries of conventional thought. Best known as the founder of the modern Japanese detective novel, Ranpo wrote for a youthful audience, and a taste for playacting and theatre animates his stories. His writing is often associated with the era of