Ben Gul is the most orthodox mystery novel ("Ben Gul" literally means "orthodox and pure"), which pays attention to fairness and needs to provide clues for readers to participate in reasoning.
The spirit of scampering lies in "solving puzzles" The "mystery" refers to "the fact that ordinary people can't penetrate." From a narrower point of view, "mystery" must be beyond the scope of human rational thinking. On the contrary, "cracking" must be completely rooted in rational thinking and logical reasoning. More importantly, the clues and basis for cracking come from the story itself and cannot appear out of thin air. This is called fairness. However, the scamper can of course join other spirits, but the trait of "solving puzzles" must still be put in the first place, which is irreplaceable by other traits.
Edgar Watt Lapoul is the pioneer of this Gul mystery novel, while Soji Shimada initiated the era of a new Gul mystery novel.
(The history and characteristics of scampering can be written in more than 10,000 words, so I won't elaborate here. )
While paying attention to logical reasoning, the Biange School pays more attention to the description of the horror atmosphere and abnormal psychological state, blending logic and romantic interest.
Abnormal mystery novels will break through the traditional techniques by revealing the psychological abnormality of the characters. This novel is fantastic and unpredictable, which represents the romantic style of detective novels. Ghosts also appear in some works, forming a gloomy and secretive art school, so perverts are sometimes classified as novels involving pathological behavior or attached abnormal themes.
Seishi Yokomizo is the pioneer of frontier mystery novels, and others such as Taro Xiao Ye and Meinong Tang (The Murder in the Black Death Hall and Brain Hell by these two writers are one and the other of the "Four Great Japanese Mysteries" respectively. )
Socialists, on the other hand, pay attention to motivation, criticize social phenomena and exclude celebrities, and have a profound description of human nature (at that time, there was a view to refute Benguer's degeneration into a paper game).
The spirit of social school lies in "social criticism and description of human nature". In addition, it also adds the characteristics of "mystery", even though its creative spirit has nothing to do with it. Perhaps it can be explained as follows: (1) Social school mystery novels use the characteristics of "mystery" to "criticize society and describe human nature"; "Social criticism and description of human nature" is the purpose and "mystery" is the tool. Due to the realistic limitation of "purpose", natural social groups will pay attention to motivation and exclude celebrities.
Seicho Matsumoto is the pioneer of social school, and I'm afraid only Shinichi Morimura's achievements can match him.
Cold-blooded faction is the action command, and the reasoning taste is relatively weak.
The cold-blooded faction pays more attention to "the relationship between crime and society" In the books and stories of this school, the protagonists, whether detectives or criminals, are bound to be in the dark corner of society, so that they must rely on fists and perseverance to survive. The writer observes this society through the cold eyes of the protagonist, thus realistically highlighting the unreasonable, bloody and bizarre side of this society. So sex and violence occupy a large proportion in this school, while reason and solving puzzles are not the key points at all. What's more, this school will extremely reject the mystery beyond imagination, which is the most important place where it deviates from Benguer School. Cold mystery novels often give readers great shock. Although its shocking degree is not in solving puzzles, it should be very strong to refine the dark side of society through the process of solving puzzles. In addition, the cold school has a profound and extensive influence in the film history, and many classic films related to violent aesthetics originated from the cold school.
Maltese falcon is a masterpiece of the Cold School, written by dashiell hammett.