Prewar and Wartime Counterintelligence Novels 16: East of the Urals

Yamamoto Shugoro wrote adventure novels for magazines such as Shonen Shojo Tankai before the war. He also wrote adventure novels, military novels, and counter-espionage novels under the pen name Kono Shinzo. This collection includes "East of the Urals," a secret record of an East Asian conspiracy in which the boy detective Haruta Ryusuke is invited to the newly founded state of Manchukuo to fight against a conspiracy group; "Danger!! The Secret of the Submarine," the first Haruta Ryusuke novel; and counter-espionage novels written under the name Kono Shinzo, "Duty and Honor," "The Lazy Journalist Arrests the Spy," and "Miracle at the Bottom of the River.