Rampo Edogawa's Birthday

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Hirai Tarō (平井 太郎, October 21, 1894 - July 28, 1965), better known by the pseudonym Edogawa Rampo (江戸川 乱歩, sometimes romanized as "Edogawa Ranpo"), was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogorō Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Adolescent Detective Gang" (少年探偵団 Shōnen tantei dan).