The Strange Tale of Panorama Island

Suehiro Maruo, Edogawa Rampo

Follows the twisted path of failed novelist Hitomi Hirosuke, who bears an uncanny resemblance to a former classmate, the son of a rich industrialist family. Learning of the rich man's sudden passing, Hitomi fakes his own death, digs up and hides the other man's body, and then washes himself up on a beach near the home of the dead man's family.