Chapter 147 Mystery Fiction
Qin Chuan was not a fan of mystery novels in his previous life, and he had only read this type of novel.
This movie "The Dedication of Suspect X" is the one that left the deepest impression on him.
As Keigo Higashino's representative work, the suspect is the only top masterpiece in Japan's history that includes the annual championship of the three major mystery novels. He is the winner of the Naoki Award, the highest literary award in Japan. He has always been in the top ten on the Amazon best-selling list in Japan, South Korea and China, and has never fallen out in several years.
That man really wrote the scam to the extreme!
In this novel, there are perfect crimes and clever tricks, a genius showdown between Yukawa and Ishikar, and a forbearing love between Ishikar and Yasuko.
Combining the story with suspense, the entire story structure and the portrayal of love make it a clear stream in mystery novels, and writing the sacrifice of love deep in the hearts of readers.
Perhaps it is this way of writing that makes "Suspect x" extremely popular in East Asia, but it is slightly less well-known in the Western world.
The whole book begins with a great and dead one.
Who killed the murder process, and everything was revealed in detail. The readers can't think of any place to arrange the trajectory of a mystery novel.
Generally, mystery novels take the positive path, that is, the deceased and the solver.
The common routine is very simple: when someone dies, how is his family? The people around him say they are not present to prove that they are not present. The detective or policeman thinks and solves the case and finds the murderer. The murderer cries and tells that he has to kill someone, and then leads to the story hidden behind the case.
The result of such a narrative is often to weaken the villain, because the murderer is often revealed at the end.
Because the author does not want readers to guess who the murderer is too early, he dares not use a lot of writing on the murderer when writing, so it is difficult to be full of characters. The whole book is often an overwhelming victory, without evenly matched wits and courage.
Although readers will be a little surprised when they see the identity of the murderer, there is actually no turmoil in their hearts. Anyway, they are as powerful as watching the protagonist peel off the threads.
Excellent mystery novels are never a one-man show for the protagonist, but a villain who plays with the protagonist.
If you can create an excellent villain, no matter how bad the quality of the book is, it will not be much worse.
For example, the famous Jack the Ripper, Professor Hannibal, etc.
A distinct villain is better than a mediocre good guy.
But Keigo Higashino has made innovations and used writing techniques that are different from traditional habits in "The Devotion of Suspect X"!
The content of the nineteenth chapter of the book, but the first two chapters have presented the readers with three important factors in the mystery novel, namely who is the criminal, the process of the crime and the result of the crime.
It can be said that the biggest answer to the mystery novel has been solved!
Readers can be said to have been completely misled by Keigo Higashino. In the following content, they all thought they would see the battle between the police and the prisoners.
Little do I know that this is the exquisiteness of the layout of the whole text!
Once the suspense is announced, it is indeed simple but unexpected.
Since the novel has always intentionally emphasized that the crime was March 10th, people subjectively believe that the first chapter happened on that day, and they were actually completely blinded.
The reader also followed the police officer around the circle, and it was not until the end that he suddenly realized and truly understood the meaning of the word "dedication".
The charm of mystery novels lies in the design of the answer.
By laying the groundwork for details such as the appearance characters, the time and place of the events, and sometimes some narrative means are even used to give readers a preconceived impression.
The impact and accidents that the mystery is solved in the end are the greatest pleasure for readers to like this type of novel.
Unlike Qin Chuan's previous works, mystery novels must have both accidents and rationality in their layout, in addition to story-based accidents!
You cannot think wildly and randomly, but you must have a complete logical chain for the entire event.
Although what happened in his community may be completely different from the plot in the novel, Qin Chuan is still ready to go and is excited that he has chosen such a new book.
It's okay to try a new type.
Besides, although the suspect is a mystery novel, he still focuses on love.
This has the same characteristics as Qin Chuan’s previous novels, and feelings are very important!
The same lineage.
"Suspect x" tells the purest love and the most perfect trick.
The heroine Yasuko Hanaoka, who once worked in a hotel, once had an unbearable marriage. After she divorced, she went to a convenience store to work, so as to get rid of the entanglement of Fu Jianji's ex-husband.
Who knew that his ex-husband had found the convenience store and Yasuko's residence through various channels. After breaking in, he had a fight with Yasuko and his daughter. During the fight, Yasuko strangled Fujishiji with a wire.
Because of the great movement, the neighbor Ishikami Tetsuya was alarmed.
The only fun this math teacher who is rare in a century every day is to go to the bento shop to buy lunch, and he has a crush on his neighbor Yasuko.
After the incident, Shi Shen started an incredible plan in order to save the poor mother and son!
The body was found in a wasteland, with nothing, his face destroyed, and his fingerprints were burned. The police finally confirmed the identity of the deceased through bicycles and a bucket of unburned clothes. The person was Tomokashiji, and his ex-wife Yasuko Hanoka was naturally the number one suspect.
When the police began to investigate Yasuko Hanoka, they inferred that the night when Toshikishiji died, Yasuko Hanoka accompanied his daughter to the movies and went to KTV and ramen restaurants, and there were all kinds of evidence of being absent.
The investigation progress reached a deadlock. Later, the police found Ishikan's only friend, Yukawa Kuro. The detective was meticulous and noticed Ishikan's secret love for Hanaoka Yasuko and his anger towards his customer Kudo.
Yukawa Xue saw the clues and plans because of the abnormality of the Ishikan.
In order to protect Yasuko Hanaoka and his daughter, Shi Shen played his last ace, which was to surrender!
He explained everything and portrayed himself as a stalker of Yasuko Hanoka, and was convicted by the police, believing that he was the murderer of Tomokashiji.
But Yukawa Xue was not willing to have his friends, and his strong rival was misunderstood, so he found Yasuko Hanaoka.
The truth finally comes out!
Why can't the police find loopholes in Yasuko Hanaoka's absentee certificate? Why can this woman calmly respond to the police's questioning?
Because those absenteeisms are all true, they are not fictional or performed at all.
It turns out that it is not just Fu Jianjian Er who died!
After Shi Shen moved Tokuya's body back to his room, he planned a new murder case.
He used a new homeless man who had just arrived here to let him stay in Fujian's hotel for one day, and then left his fingerprints and hair as evidence. At night, he asked the homeless man to ride a bicycle to the place where the body was found, and used the same wire to kill the homeless man, then destroyed his face and fingerprints, so that he could play Fujian's body.
In other words, the bodies found by the police initially and the confirmed time of the murder were all compiled by Shi Shen himself after repeated planning!
At the end of the story, Yasuko Hanaoka knew everything Ishiji had done to her, and at the same time received a proposal from Kudo. After a fierce psychological struggle, she resolutely chose to surrender.
Shi Shen sacrificed himself to help and protect Yasuko and his daughter!
However, when Yasuko Hanaoka stood in front of him, Shijiji's face looked like earth and had no hope.
Both sides suffered losses in the end, Ishikan's seamless plan was finally defeated, and Yasuko Hanoka was unwilling to accept this heavy love.
Qin Chuan had already determined to write this novel. After he had conceived it in his mind, he was preparing to localize the novel.
For the time being, Qin Chuan is not prepared to make major changes to the plot of the entire novel. The ingenious conception and meticulous logic of this novel cannot be changed so easily.
If you move your whole body and change it, the whole story will change.
Anyway, the truth of "The Devotion of Suspect X" was revealed at the end. The two surrendered themselves in the police station, and it is natural to put the background in China.
In the original work, Tetsuya Shin-chan changed his name to Shi Hong, and the detective Yukawa School was changed to Yukawa, and Yasuko Hanoka simply called Chen Jing, and the rest of the characters would also be modified.
In addition to characters, the heroine works, lives, and even the identity and background of each character, and the way people talk and talk should be as local as possible, and there should be no places or customs in Japan.
In the state of overclocking of the brain, Qin Chuan discovered that Keigo Higashino described the environment very little.
After careful counting, there are only four or five simple descriptions, but they set the tone of the cool color system of the work.
The psychological descriptions and character dialogues in the novel are all plain styles, and there are no intense scenes.
The whole book's word selection is very concise and simple, without too much rendering and writing skills, but rather uses a simple tone that is close to reality to unfold the plot.
This is exactly the style required by suspense mystery novels.
The more concise and precise it is, the better it is, and there is no need to be a cluster of flowers.
Qin Chuan didn't know that the world accepted mystery novels so well, but he planned to give it a try.
From the current point of view, I will not be short of money for the time being and have enough confidence to make trouble.
He plans to be willful, not do market research or consider the degree of acceptance of readers, but instead localize the story he likes.
Of course it is best for readers to like it, and it is okay if they don’t like it.
"A good story, even if they don't like reading mystery novels, they will fall in love with it." Qin Chuan murmured to himself, "It would be unreasonable if readers send me blades."
Perhaps this book can bring a different reasoning experience to the market, allowing them to feel the charm of mystery novels!
To benefit readers from other worlds, every author who travels through time has this responsibility!
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Chapter completed!