Posted on June 13, 2025
edogawa ranpo covers part 4 and a half – a poplar interlude


while hunting for the edogawa ranpo covers from my last post (the ones rewritten to include the boy detectives) I found a funny little oddity: an edition of the rewrites that also included… something mysterious!? read on… if you’ve got the nerve!!!
Read MorePosted on June 11, 2025
edogawa ranpo covers part 4 – the fiend with twenty poplars




after finding the original 26 shonen tanteidan book covers from this poplar edition, I had no idea I might find more – let alone 20! a mystery was certainly afoot… and I planned to solve it. read on – if you dare!!
Read MorePosted on June 10, 2025
edogawa ranpo covers part 3 – the case of the missing poplars!






back in my first post on these shonen tanteidan book covers, I didn’t really have much info on them – but then I got stuck into digging up more info while I’ve been recuperating from a cold (cough). and so, here I present – the remaining covers that I was missing from that first batch of Poplar Publishing editions. which should be the end of it… OR IS IT??? read more to find out!!
Read MorePosted on June 9, 2025
edogawa ranpo book covers part 2 – kobunsha!






while I was hunting for the covers from my previous post, I also found a treasure trove of covers from the same series, but a different publisher – in this case, kobunsha! I also found… some fun facts??! read more to find out!! :^O
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