One of the first wonderful books, Taro Kojiro, was serialized in New Youth magazine of 1934. This is the first novel written by Kokurtaro, and the protagonist detective in the novel imitates Rintaro who once appeared in his previous short stories. In less than a year, * * * completed all 1000 articles, which were released by Xinchao Society on May 1935. At that time, Edgar Watt Lapel and Koga Saburo were invited to write a preface for this purpose.
Introduction:
Xiangmo, a mysterious and mysterious family, lives in a western-style castle in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is full of rare breath and is called the "Black Death Hospital". Many years ago, there were several inexplicable murders in this family, and they all ended up in vain. This time, the tragedy happened again. Mrs. Daniberg of the Black Death Museum was unfortunately killed, and the body still bloomed with holy light, just like being wrapped in a layer of light fog. However, this is only the beginning ... Is it true that the killers are water, wind, fire and earth? Strange killing methods, strange criminal tricks and mysterious identity of the murderer have all the elements of a mystery novel. This work can be said to be the best of its kind, but its most unique place is all kinds of decoration, harmony and different kinds of knowledge and arguments buried behind the decoration. The author combines many anecdotes about German, poetry, music, medicine, crime and religion. And he does not hesitate to quote allusions everywhere. The whole work is full of mysteries and inferences related to symbols, codes and symbols. The specific content of these symbols is both difficult and vague, and the detective's brilliant reasoning is carried out in a world shrouded in secret codes.
2 "Brain Hell" Yumeno Kyū saku
Japan's four major mystery novels, known as "works of art in mystery novels", began to be created in 1927, and were published by Songbaiguan Bookstore in 1935+ 10, with a total of 480,000 words. It is a classic literary work that transcends the category of reasoning literature. Some people say it is an alternative version of foreign knights, but it is not. It is deeper and greater than foreign countries. It has surpassed the type of mystery novels, has higher artistic value, and is definitely not "pseudo-supernatural".
Introduction:
The novel is centered on "I"-telling the story of a young man looking for himself. I woke up in a room I had never seen before, and I was horrified to find that I felt strange and uneasy about myself. The woman next door wept bitterly and told him their relationship. The strange and terrible news made him even more afraid. A man named Jolin Kyotaro appeared, claiming to replace the late Professor Masaki to complete the madman liberation treatment for men, and to help him recover his memory and solve the truth of the bizarre case. However, the sudden appearance of the dead Professor Masaki provided many clues. Men trace the history of their ancestors, and the ancestral memory hidden in genes is "awakened" ... What is the truth of the incident? Can a person find his true identity? Who is the real murderer of the big event that caused Masaki Keiji and Lin Ruojing Taro to be interested in the study of "psychogenetics"? Does the crime of using mental science really exist? As the story goes on, the mystery becomes more and more complicated, which makes readers wonder which is true and which is a dream. All this will be revealed at the end of the novel.
The chapters told in the novel are a bit confusing to read, which are interspersed with a lot of bizarre and profound content. It is the masterpiece of the author Yumeno Kyū saku and the pinnacle of the mystery novel of the Biange School. Among them, the chorus Ode to Crazy Hell, an interview with Professor Zhengmu, the surface of the earth is the biggest liberation and treatment field for lunatics, absolute detective novels, academic papers, fetal dreams and handwritten suicide notes can only be called amazing after reading them, which reflects the author's profound psychological and literary skills. Who's "I"? What was my past like? Am I a murderer? Do I have an engagement with a stunning beauty? Are Dr. Masaki and Dr. Lin Ruo good or evil? What do I have to do with the legend that happened a thousand years ago? Who is crazy ... It can be said that this book will bring people unprecedented experience. You may not like it, but don't miss it.
3 "Dedicated to nothingness" Nakai Hideo/Tajingfu
Although Murder in the Black Death Hall and Illusion were regarded as two giant peaks of heretical literature before the war, it was in the post-war period that they were truly hailed as the highest masterpieces of Japanese detective novels, after the appearance of the third wonderful book. The third wonderful book is Nakai Hideo's Dedication to nothingness (Japanese original name is Dedication to nothingness). The conception of this novel began at 1955. 1The first two chapters in 962 participated in the 8th Edogawa Ramp Prize. Although he didn't win the prize, he was finally selected into the shortlist. The following year (1963), he completed * * * * manuscripts 1200, and was named "Ta Jingfu" in February 1964.
This novel is based on the mystery of the murder in the continuous secret room of the Ice Marsh family. The author uses the creative technique of "work in progress" to interweave the real world of events with the fictional world generated by reasoning. Through the analysis and discussion of all kinds of crazy reasoning characters in the story and the events in the real world, the elements of fantasy and metaphysics are injected into the dull and monotonous real case, thus forming another novel full of strange colors and novelty. In fact, conceptually, Dedicated to nothingness belongs to the "anti-mystery novel" mode, and many critics even regard it as the masterpiece of Japanese anti-mystery novel.
Introduction:
On September 29th, a ferry capsized in Showa Hokkaido, causing 1055 deaths or missing.
However, behind this tragedy is the disaster suffered by a cursed family. ...
It is rumored that the Icuma family is a family that was unfortunately embraced, and both parents died strangely. On the surface, it was a natural and man-made disaster, but in fact, it could not get rid of the shadow of the curse, which aroused the lasting interest of Nai Nai Village, and he was determined to become a detective.
In the event that a person was killed in an ice marsh family, Nai Nai Murakami dug up relevant clues through pipelines and started reasoning debates with other characters, gradually exposing various strange phenomena around death. ...
4. "Lost in the Box" Kenji Takemoto
This book won the award of the 32nd Japan Association of Reasoning Writers, and was even listed as one of the four great mystery books in Japan.
Kenji Takemoto, 22, was a college student at that time. On Nakai Hideo's personal recommendation, he began to serialize Lost Music in the Box in Fantasy City in 1977, and completed 1200 manuscripts in the following year (1978) and published them as a book. The style of this novel can be said to be a direct inheritance of the creative concept of "dedication to nothingness", which was later compared with the previous three fantasy novels by critic Yeung Yi (namely Ichirou Kaneda). Since then, the general term "Four Wonders of Japanese Detective Stories" has been widely circulated. As the author himself said, The Lost Joy in the Box was inspired by the worship of nothingness, and the biggest feature of this novel is the use of works in progress. The same characters, the same scene, but in different time and space, a completely different story happened. The story of each chapter is intertwined in the novel world and the real world, and the plot of each chapter seems to be just a reflection produced by another mirror. From the reader's point of view, these stories appearing in the mirrors on both sides have caused confusion and inversion between the real world and the fictional world, giving people a wonderful feeling of "confusing the fake with the real".
Introduction:
There are a lot of people and their roles are vague. The story revolves around a group of dozens of reasoning fans, most of whom are college students with their own specialties, but there are also young teenagers. These people suffered misfortune one after another, some were killed and some disappeared for no reason, but all the incidents have one thing in common, all related to some so-called reverse secret rooms. Since there was a bizarre accident around them, as fans of reasoning, they certainly discussed reasoning again and again, but there was no obvious combination of detectives and no particularly suspicious suspects in the novel. Everyone's reasoning is specious and often comes up with some incomprehensible mathematical and cultural theories, but it seems to be of no practical use. Coupled with the strange fighting theory, I feel dizzy when I look at it.
What is even more frightening is the strange structure of the novel. The book is divided into five chapters (excluding the preface and the final chapter), but the stories described in each chapter are not only inconsistent in time, but also contradictory in content. For example, the first deceased in the first chapter still lives in the same or later time in the second chapter, because according to the dialogue at the beginning of the second chapter, the first chapter is actually only the first chapter of a mystery novel created by one of the characters with the reality as the background (that is, "works in progress"), so some of the contents in the first chapter are fictional, some are true (relatively speaking), and the case in the first chapter is false. However, in the third chapter, it becomes ...
In the last chapter and "the last chapter" of the story, the author finally solved all the secret rooms and mysteries like ordinary mystery novels, explained the murderer and motivation in a reasonable and detailed way, and explained everyone's ending clearly. However, the last episode of The Final Chapter is still confusing. Is that the key to this book?
A novel worth reading, because it at least contains special ideas that other general mystery novels don't have. As for whether that is equal to the so-called "origin of new case reasoning" in the propaganda sentence, it is unclear.
This book was selected by Daily News and Reasoning magazine as the first best mystery novel in the twenty years after the war!
Won the second place in the top 100 Japanese mystery novels selected by Wen Chun Weekly!
The author won the second prize of Edogawa Lanpu Prize with two chapters of unfinished works dedicated to nothingness, which is unprecedented!