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"The Rules of the Great Detective" Author: [Japan] Higashino Keigo Publisher: Nankai Publishing Co., Ltd. Original title: The Great Detective Oki
"The Rules of the Great Detective" Author: [Japan] Higashino Keigo Publisher: Nankai Publishing Co., Ltd. Original title: The Great Detective Oki
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The core of detective novels lies in solving puzzles, the essence of solving puzzles lies in logic, and the object of logic lies in trickery.
Countless masters who have emerged so far have spent their entire lives thinking about one question: How to write a trick that will be remembered for generations?
The mystery of the locked room, the alibi, the narrative trick, the nursery rhyme murder, the death code, the snowstorm manor, the missing murder weapon... All the reasoning modes have been written out, what is left in the world of reasoning? Must it be complicated, confusing, and whimsical to be exciting and interesting?
A work by Keigo Higashino that systematically "studies" tricks, a work that expands the territory of mystery novels, sorting out various possibilities and revealing various impossibilities, involving a wide range of tricks and a depth of surprises, all of which are jaw-dropping...
"The Detective's Guide" uses a humorous and satirical tone to deconstruct the writing mode of orthodox detective novels, and completely subverts the tricks and methods that have been familiar to people for a long time. The originality is admirable, and the good intentions make people think deeply after reading it. As the author himself said: "I want readers to be surprised, so I ignore all the routines of novels..."
I personally don’t quite understand why modern writers would write retro mystery novels like Kindaichi Kosuke’s. — Keigo Higashino
Is it really meaningful for young people like us to repeat the various tricks and patterns woven by the masters of the past after years of thinking? Is it a kind of opportunistic trick for creators? - Keigo Higashino
When I wrote the first short story of "The Detective's Guide" with a critical and satirical mindset, I never expected that it would be so well received by those around me. - Keigo Higashino
About the Author · · · · · ·
Keigo Higashino is a famous Japanese writer.
In 1985, his masterpiece After School won the 31st Edogawa Ranpo Award, and he began to write full-time. In 1997, The Detective's Guide made a stunning debut, causing a huge shock in the entire mystery world. In 1999, Secret won the 52nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and was shortlisted for the 120th Naoki Prize; after that, White Night Walk, Unrequited Love, Letter, and Phantom Night were shortlisted for the Naoki Prize four times, but all missed the grand prize; in 2006, The Devotion of Suspect X won the 134th Naoki Prize, the 6th Honkaku Mystery Novel Award, and the first place in the three major mystery novel rankings of the year, which was unprecedented.
His early works were mostly delicate and meticulous detective stories. His later works became more mature, with less embellishment in the text, concise and fierce narration, ups and downs and bizarre plots, and a story structure that was almost unbelievable. He was good at writing extremely reasonable stories from extremely unreasonable places, and his skills were so profound that people were shocked.
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