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少年探偵 #4
大金塊
ある夜、不二夫少年は自宅に賊に忍び込まれて、恐ろしい体験をした。聞くと、宮瀬氏には大金塊と呼ばれる宝物が伝わっているという。
明智探偵、小林少年と賊とで繰り広げられる大金塊の在りかを示す暗号文の争奪戦。そして、探検は伊勢の沖にある孤島へ。少年探偵シリーズ、第４弾！
※この電子書籍は、表紙絵・挿絵を収録せず、ルビを最小限に留めた簡装版です。完全版はポプラ社文庫クラシックにてご覧いただけます。
明智探偵、小林少年と賊とで繰り広げられる大金塊の在りかを示す暗号文の争奪戦。そして、探検は伊勢の沖にある孤島へ。少年探偵シリーズ、第４弾！
※この電子書籍は、表紙絵・挿絵を収録せず、ルビを最小限に留めた簡装版です。完全版はポプラ社文庫クラシックにてご覧いただけます。
- GenresJapanese Literature
249 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1964
6 people want to read
About the author
Edogawa Rampo
915 books1,050 followersHirai Tarō (平井 太郎), better known by the pseudonym Rampo Edogawa ( 江戸川 乱歩), sometimes romanized as "Ranpo Edogawa", was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction.
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January 21, 2016
Rampo Edogawa is fun. He is a good writer, with an amazing imagination and a knack for the grotesque and the erotic. He also had an amazing run as YA writer with the "Shonen tantei" series, which are basically the same as his adult novels but with less blood, limbs and naked skin. So, not so much fun.
I'm actually lying. His "Shonen tantei" is quite fun, and this "大金塊" is no exception. It's more a short novel than anything else (200 pages, but with big moji and drawings, it can be read in an afternoon if you're good (or native) at Japanese), and as that, it deals with things in a breezy manner. Famous detective Akechi and his young follower Kobayashi are called to help the family Miyase. One of the ancestors of the family had hidden some gold without telling where, only leaving a secret message that couldn't be decoded. And now a thief seems intent on finding all the gold for themselves.
The beginning is fun and the feeling keeps throughout the 200 pages. But what you can't forgive Edogawa is the laziness that pervades the novel. Not one of the ideas that appear in the story is new. If you have read any of his other books, you will see that many of the things that happen are taken from other of his novels. Too many actually, which takes from the experience. That's basically the biggest problem with the book, as it is fun to read. But you will be: oh, he used that on "...", and this is obviously from "...". Etc. etc. And that Miyase doesn't remember the second part of the secret message is a head-scratcher.
Rampo, don't be lazy.
6/10
I'm actually lying. His "Shonen tantei" is quite fun, and this "大金塊" is no exception. It's more a short novel than anything else (200 pages, but with big moji and drawings, it can be read in an afternoon if you're good (or native) at Japanese), and as that, it deals with things in a breezy manner. Famous detective Akechi and his young follower Kobayashi are called to help the family Miyase. One of the ancestors of the family had hidden some gold without telling where, only leaving a secret message that couldn't be decoded. And now a thief seems intent on finding all the gold for themselves.
The beginning is fun and the feeling keeps throughout the 200 pages. But what you can't forgive Edogawa is the laziness that pervades the novel. Not one of the ideas that appear in the story is new. If you have read any of his other books, you will see that many of the things that happen are taken from other of his novels. Too many actually, which takes from the experience. That's basically the biggest problem with the book, as it is fun to read. But you will be: oh, he used that on "...", and this is obviously from "...". Etc. etc. And that Miyase doesn't remember the second part of the secret message is a head-scratcher.
Rampo, don't be lazy.
6/10
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