edogawa ranpo book covers

shonen tanteidan / boy detective club

Kobunsha covers

rampo world is an excellent resource! I am obsessed with it!! some of the titles differ between editions, as these versions are older. as far as I am aware, these were (mainly?) illustrated by Kazuo Matsuno

Poplar Publishing covers

1950s

Japan Great Detective Library (日本名探偵文庫)

this poplar collection, published from 1955 to 1957, featured 4 edogawa ranpo titles among the 25 novels in its selection – this included works from other contemporaries, such as Oshita Udaru, Tsunoda Kikuo, Mizutani Jun, Koga Saburo, Shimada Kazuo, Minami Yoichiro and Kume Genichi.

1960s

these were primarily illustrated by shigeru yanase (but if you know any more info about the illustrators let me know!!)

shonen tanteidan “rewritten” novels

these were previously published books rewritten to include the boy detectives – I talked about this more here – additionally, some of these rewrites are included in the meitantei series (名探偵シリーズ) from poplar, along with works from seishi yokomizo, akimitsu takagi & unno juza

Kodansha

Shonenban Edogawa Ranpo Selected Works

these were published in the 1970s, with cover illustrations by Noriyoshi Ohrai