The father of Japanese mystery fiction, Hirai Tarō, was such a massive admirer of Poe that he created the pen name Edogawa Ranpo —a phonetic Japanese rendering of "Edgar Allan Poe".
The "Swimming in the Sky" or "Whereabouts of the Sky" refers to this mechanical white whale floating ominously above the clouds, setting up the high-stakes aerial battle to save the city. Poe and Rampo - Moby Dick, Swimming in the Sky - IMDb 10 : Poe and Rampo / The Whereabouts of the Sky...
Poe uses his supernatural ability, Black Cat in the Rue Morgue , to trap Ranpo inside the setting of an unfinished murder mystery novel. Ranpo must solve the murder using pure deduction to escape. The father of Japanese mystery fiction, Hirai Tarō,
The ship is set on a collision course to crash directly into the city of Yokohama. Ranpo must solve the murder using pure deduction to escape