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A mystery novel is a novel that solves the mystery of the story by reasoning (mostly to find out the murderer). Usually stories contain murder and detectives, and some do not take murder as the main plot direction, such as looking for lost things or solving the mystery of strange events. A detective novel, but it is not always the detective who uncovers the mystery.

( 1) 184 1—— 19 12

Short detective stories are the mainstream.

Representative writer: Arthur? Conan? Doyle, chesterton, R? A free man, Jack? Fortriton

(2)1913-1920s

1)E？ C Bentley's The Last Case of Symposium was published in 19 13. It is considered to be the beginning of classical mystery novels.

2) Agatha 1920? Christie's debut novel The Mystery of stiles and Freeman? Kraft's Bucket brought the mystery detective novel into the golden age.

(3)11930s

Classical mystery novels reached their peak. Tough guy detective novels began to appear in the late 1920s. During this period, the United States got more room for development, especially Raymond in the late 1930s. Chandler is especially famous. At the same time, pure crime novels based on psychology began to enter the stage in Britain.

(4) the forties

The momentum of classical mystery novels is still strong, but their status has been gradually replaced by pure crime novels and psychological mystery novels. Promoted the popularity of spy novels and gangster novels.

⑤ 1950s

The tough guys sent detective novels, pure crime novels and psychological reasoning novels into the mainstream.

(6)11960s

1) is the low point of mystery novels.

2)007 James? Bond's appearance rekindled the enthusiasm of spy novels.

(7) The 1970s

Spy novels are still hot, and tough guy detective novels have a little vitality. But the latest trend is historical mystery novels.

(8) 1980s-new century

A hundred schools of thought contend, and all kinds of mystery detective novels have a big turning point and development space.

Representative: Lawrence? Brock.

Mystery novels originated in America, developed in Britain and became popular in Japan. At present, Japanese literary circles attach great importance to the development of world mystery novels. At present, the mainstream mystery novels on the market mainly come from European and American reasoning and Japanese reasoning, and most of them are translated novels. There are few mystery novels written in Chinese, and it is still a minority culture in the circle of reasoning, and it is still in its infancy. In Japan, where ACG industry is developed, there are also reasoning comics.

[Edit this paragraph] Golden Age

(1) 1920 Agatha Christie's first novel The Mystery of stiles and Freeman Kraft's Bucket brought the mystery detective novel into the golden age.

(2) The Big Three in the Golden Age:

Ellery? Quinn

John? Dixon. Carl

Agatha? Norwegian turn

(3) Famous mystery writers in the Golden Age and their first novels.

English:

e？ C the last box of Trent of Bentley 19 13.

Agatha? The Mystery of Christie in styles 1920

Freeman? Wells? Kraft's bucket 1920

Answer? The Mystery of a Favorite in the Red Chamber 1922

Dorothy. l？ Whose body is Sayers 1923

Answer? e？ W Jianwu in Mei Sen 1924

Ronald? Berkeley murdered Continental Bridge 1925

Anthony? The murder of poisoned chocolate in Berkeley 1929

Beautiful:

s？ Benson murder in Van Dine 1926

Ellery? The mystery of Quinn's Roman hat 1929

John? Dixon. Carl's Night Walk 1930

Type introduction

Genre classification in mystery novels is similar to general literature classification, most of which are vague and difficult to classify clearly. There will always be a work identified as a different genre at the same time, and few works can be accurately classified into a certain category. However, there are still some differences between schools, so here are some common proper nouns, but please note that even the definitions of these nouns are sometimes different.

Pumpism: It can also be called classicism or traditionalism. Solving puzzles by reasoning is the mainstream of mystery novels. The so-called "Benge" is a noun introduced from Japan, which stands for "orthodoxy"; Some people define this case as "a fantasy mystery novel (mainly related to crime), a novel with strong logic." Bungee jumpers can satisfy readers who are interested in solving puzzles, and usually try their best to make readers and detectives have the same clues and stand on the same plane. Some writers of this genre will have a declaration of "challenging readers" (such as ellery queen), that is, telling readers that "you have enough clues to solve puzzles here" and challenging readers to solve puzzles like detectives. Therefore, paying attention to fairness and rational logic is the characteristic of this kind of reasoning, while skipping has another characteristic. Because of the "fantasy mystery", it is difficult for realistic social groups to have such characteristics, because there are murders in secret rooms or isolated islands, because such murders are not overhead in fantasy. How can there be so many strange nameless islands for murders in reality? Why were there so many secret rooms just now? Therefore, the focus of social school is "social criticism and description of human nature" rather than solving puzzles. Therefore, Benguer School is often regarded as an armchair strategist by social school, but books belonging to social school look much darker.

Variant school: based on creating a treacherous atmosphere and abnormal psychology, mystery novels are usually extremely surprising or whimsical ideas, focusing on unexpected storylines.

Socialists: To some extent, they were born to oppose Benguer's "puzzle game on paper", emphasizing that mystery novels should not only reason, but also reflect and describe the real society. This school of mystery novels focuses on social realism.

Tough guy school:1The poverty and misfortune during the Great Depression in the 1930s, coupled with the increase of social violence in the United States, produced a group of writers who were completely different from the trend of thought in the Golden Age. Most of them started from cheap magazines, and the detectives they wrote were not omnipotent. They believe in the power of weapons and are all tough guys, so they are called "tough guys". Among them, the most famous masters and representatives are: Dashell? Raymond, Hammett? Chandler, Lawrence? Brock, etc.

Realism: a mystery novel without detectives, which mainly describes the process of detectives (police officers) tracing clues, among which Freeman Kraft's Bucket is the masterpiece.

Court school: As the name implies, court debate is the main axis. Usually, the scene takes place in court, and people will not be crushed by the law, which makes people feel relieved; The reasoning process in court is often to drill a small loophole to find some clues, and then after several links, the court overturned the case on the spot.

The mystery of history:

(1) There are generally two types in Europe and America:

1) The background of the novel is completely based on the past times, which is called "period detective novel".

2) Contemporary detectives investigate a long-standing case, which is called "super-historical detective novel".

Examples of the former include the early American writer Melville? Davidson? Buster's uncle Abernathy, the mysterious master, who is Josephine's role model? Tieyi's daughter of time.

(2) The most famous historical mystery novel is Tieyi's Daughter of Time.

Creative code

There are two different versions of the well-known rules for the creation of mystery novels, both of which are norms for the creation of mystery novels. After Knox put forward the Ten Commandments of mystery novels in 1928, the famous mystery writer Van Dine put forward twenty rules of mystery novels.

Its contents are as follows:

The mystery novel is an intellectual game, more like a competition. Authors must play games with readers fairly. He must keep a certain degree of honesty when using strategies and skills, and never go too far as cheating in bridge. He must win with wisdom and arouse readers' interest through clever and honest design. So there are very clear rules for writing mystery novels. Although they are unwritten rules, they are binding, and every respected novelist or self-respecting novelist must abide by them.

Here, I specifically list these terms that should be called "commandments". Part of it is based on the principles followed by all great reasoning writers, and the other part comes from the inner beliefs of all honest writers.

(a) Compare the cigarette butts left at the crime scene with the brands of cigarettes smoked by the suspect, so as to find out the murderer.

(b) Pretending that the ghost of the victim appeared to frighten the murderer into confessing.

Forge fingerprints.

(d) Using a dummy to create an alibi.

(e) Because the dog doesn't bark, it means that the intruder is an acquaintance.

An innocent person was identified as the murderer, but it turned out that he was the murderer's twin brother (or sister) or very similar relative.

(g) Injecting with a syringe or putting ecstasy into a drink.

(h) The murder really started after the police broke into a locked room.

(i) Use related words to test guilt.

(j) Using passwords or code words, which were eventually discovered by detectives.

Master of reasoning

(1) famous mystery writer:

The originator of mystery novels: Edgar? Allen. slanting

King of the Chamber of Secrets: John? Dixon. Carl

Queen of mystery novels: Agatha? Norwegian turn

The Father of Detective Mystery Novels: Edgar Va Lapol

Christie, Japan: Yoshiko Hitoshi (a famous reasoning writer who is ill in bed). Take the names and images of her and her brother as famous brother and sister detectives)

Lawrence, the most outstanding representative of contemporary tough guy detective novels and the world-renowned American detective novel master? bullock

The author of the first Japanese mystery novel introduced to China after liberation was Seicho Matsumoto.

(2) The most influential 13 mystery novel writer in Europe and America (the greatest achievement);

0 1, Edgar? Allen. Poe (the originator of mystery novels)

02, Arthur? Conan? Doyle (Sherlock? Sherlock Holmes is widely loved by reasoning fans all over the world.

03, John Dixon? Carl (King of the Chamber of Secrets, one of the Big Three)

04, Agatha? Christie (the queen of mystery novels, one of the Big Three)

05, ellery? Quinn (one of the Big Three, a master of mystery novels)

06, Morris? Lu Brown (who created Yasen, the ancestor of thieves? Luo Ping)

07. Emma Oshitz (who created the first easy chair detective in history-the old man in the corner)

08，G？ Chesterton (the first person to reason with criminal psychology)

09, Dorothy? l？ Sayers (as famous as Agatha written by Peter? Lord Wenxi, also known as the last noble detective. )

10，S？ S fan? Dyne (20 commandments of writing reasoning, master of mystery novels)

1 1, dasher? Hammett (founder of tough guy school)

12, Raymond? Chandler (tough guy master and director, his works are very popular, written by Philip? Marlowe was put on the screen)

13, Lawrence? Brock (the most outstanding representative of contemporary tough guy detective novels)

(3) The most influential 12 mystery novel writer in Japan.

Edgar Watt Lapol Seishi Yokomizo Takagi Binguang Seicho Matsumoto Ren Muzi Yue (female) Xia Shu Amethyst (female)

Kyotaro Nishimura, Seiichi Morimura, Soji Shimada, Ayatsuji Yukito, Qianchuan and Jiro all have habitats in Sichuan.

(4) Details

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Edgar. Allen. slanting

(edgar allan poe): American writer, the originator of mystery novels, whose work Murder on Mog Street is recognized as the first mystery novel in the world. Together with four other works, Scarab, Stolen Letter, The Mystery of Mary Roger and You Are the Murderer, it has laid the basic tricks and writing methods of mystery novels, which are unparalleled so far.

Arthur. Conan? Doyle

(Conan Doyle): British writer Sherlock? Sherlock Holmes is widely loved by reasoning fans all over the world and has never stopped.

Morris? Lubulong

(Maurice Lebron): French writer, known as elegant thief Yasen? Luo Ping's story is popular all over the world.

Emma. Oshiz

Emma Orczy, a Hungarian-born British writer, created the first easy chair detective in history-the old man in the corner.

g？ K chesterton (G, K, chesterton):

British writers, literary critics and theologians, because of their love for mystery novels, not only devote themselves to popularization, but also write mystery novels themselves. The most famous figure in his works is "Father Brown", who can be said to be the first person to use criminal psychology to reason cases, which is contrary to the evidence-oriented Sherlock Holmes school.

s？ S fan? Dyne (South Van Dine):

Because of a serious illness, I chose to read mystery novels in my hospital bed. After my recovery, I also began to write, writing down 20 commandments of reasoning and the murder of the bishop.

Agatha? Agatha christie:

This Englishman, known as the "queen of mystery novels", wrote a lot of novels in his life, including hercule poirot and Miss Ma Puer.

Dorothy. l？ Sayers (Dorothy L, sayers):

An Englishman as famous as Agatha wrote? Lord Wenxi, also known as the last noble detective.

Dashell. Hammett:

American, founder of tough guy school, pen name Sam? Speight

Raymond. Raymond Chandler:

American, the first pioneer of the tough guy school, wrote Philip? Maro.

George? Georges simenon (1903- 1989):

French writer, prolific sketch writer, famous detective Magritte.

John? John Cresset (1908- 1973):

British writer, one of the most prolific writers in the history of mystery novels, often published works under different pseudonyms and won prizes. The protagonist is famous for his detective George Gideon.

Ellery? Ellery queen:

Americans. This is a pseudonym, actually created by two cousins. There is a detective with the same name in the pen, ellery? Where are Quinn and Jerry? Ryan.

John? Dixon. Karl (john dickson carr, 1905- 1977):

American writer, good at creating mysterious atmosphere, is famous for his secret room reasoning, and is known as the "king of the secret room". His detective is Gideon? Dr. gideon fair, henry. Sir Melville.

Lawrence? Brock (lawrence block):

Active American writer, 1994 Allen? Winner of Poe Prize for Lifelong Master Award. Matthew, an alcoholic private investigator? Scudder and Jasper series are very famous.

Miners? Walter (Minette Walters):

An active British woman writer, starting from 1992, won three important British and American awards for her three new works, The Ice Room, The Woman Sculptor and The Poisonous Tongue Hook.

Sue? Sue grafton:

American writer, whose detective is a female private investigator? Mei Fang.

Japan

Edgwa Lapol, the founder of Japanese Bengel School, changed the status of japanese mystery. Romantic and imaginative style. Named after him is the Edogawa Random Dance Award, which is dedicated to the recognition of new writers.

Seishi Yokomizo: A Representative of Japanese Border School.

Takagi Binguang

Seicho Matsumoto: His works broke the fixed pattern of formulaic and deviant school in early Japanese detective novels, and created the field of social realism mystery novels.

Hitomi Yoshiko: (1928 ~ 1986)

Known as "Christie's in Japan". A famous writer of mystery novels. Born in Tokyo. Later, he moved to Toyama Prefecture. At the age of 4, he suffered from tuberculous osteonecrosis of thoracic vertebrae, paralysis of lower limbs and hemiplegia. Encouraged by my brother, I studied culture and wrote the mystery novel Cat Know with hard work and perseverance. 1957, he won the Edogawa Random Step Award and was made into a movie. Marry an interpreter. Later, he published the cabin in the forest, the road map of killing, the thorn tree, the black ribbon, the fallen leaves street and the cold street. The works are distinctive in style, lively, ingenious and readable. She is famous as a brother and sister detective in Japanese reasoning literature, and influenced readers at that time with the style of Japanese female novelist.

Xia Shujingzi: A housewife writer, whose works are mostly realistic and moving. 1973, Evaporation won the 26th Japanese Inferior Writers Association Award, and the third daughter also won the 1989 Adventure Novel Award. Representative works include The Tragedy of the House, The Privacy of Transgender People, Crime Scene Proof, The Illusion of the Case, Evaporation, Runway Lights, etc. Her writing style is exquisite and profound, and she won the Evaporation Award of Japan Association of Inferior Writers.

Kyotaro Nishimura: He is famous for his travel reasoning, and he often takes railways and aviation as subjects. So there will be a train timetable and a plan of the station in the novel. However, there are also masterpieces of Benguela School, such as the hyperbola of killing.

Seiichi Morimura: The patriarch of Japanese social school mystery novels, and most writers of modern social school mystery novels are influenced by him. The representative work "The Dead Corner at the Top" (translated by Li Zhongmin and published by Popular Publishing House) mainly includes the proof of humanity, youth and wildness.

Soji Shimada: The Benguer School has a great influence on the so-called New Benguer. The most famous book is astrology to kill demons, which is called the originator of New Ben Gur.

Ayatsuji Yukito: New Benguela standard bearer. Ben Gul's reasoning, but with a horror plot. The most famous is the "Guan" series of mystery novels.

Living in Sichuan and living in Japan: the backbone of Japanese neo-Benguela mystery novelists, a prolific writer, covering a wide range of fields, involving comics, TV dramas, reviews and so on.

Jiro Akagawa: A representative figure of Japanese humorous reasoning, he created a large number of series of works. Most of the works have shallow reasoning meaning, so they are sometimes criticized by reasoning fans, but they are still a good choice for the introduction of reasoning.

Tanigawa Tetsuya

Tsutomu Minakami: Tsutomu Minakami, who is tied with Seicho Matsumoto as a pillar writer of social school, won the16th Japanese Detective Fiction Writers' Club Award for his masterpiece The Tooth of the Sea. Although his period of writing mystery novels is not too long, every work in this period can be regarded as the representative work of social school.

Misa Yamamura:

Born in Kyoto, Japan, 1934, graduated from China Literature Department of Kyoto University, worked as a Chinese teacher in middle school, and wrote mystery novels in his spare time. 1969 won the "Novel Sunday" Daily Newcomer Alternate Award. 1970, 1972 and 1973 won the "Edogawa Luan Bu Prize" in succession. Disappeared in the Straits of Malacca is her first novel. Representative works include Flower Coffin (won the alternate prize of Japan Inferior Writers Association), Fantasy counterpart, Kyoto Killing Event, Kyoto Killing Map, and The Coffin of the Queen of Egypt. Most of Misa Yamamura's works take Kyoto as the stage, with local characteristics and bizarre plots. Every work is innovative, but the ending is reasonable. She is known as the "queen of mystery novels". Due to long-term overwork, he died suddenly on1September 5, 1996.

Misa Yamamura is an expert in depicting women's psychology. The themes of Misa Yamamura's novels are similar, all related to film and television life, and the killers are mostly beautiful women. Because she describes women from the height of women, it is more vivid to read. Her works represent another style of Japanese female mystery novelists, with lively narrative rhythm and gloomy writing style, which contrasts the beautiful appearance with the cold heart. Misa Yamamura's crystal works sell well, but they are not as good as Zi Yueren and Xia Shujingzi in literature.

Jincheng Jincheng: The original author of the comic book "Jintian Youth Story Book" was the original author in the early stage of the comic book, and was later replaced by Tianshu Zheng Wan. Jin Tianyi Gongjie, a character in Seishi Yokomizo's mystery novels, created his grandson with strong reasoning ability. The cartoonist is Yewen Sato.

Morihiro: Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University. There are a lot of terms and knowledge of science and engineering in his works, so he chose Japanese "science mystery novels" (Mori Yoshiro is the only one in this category at present). Famous series are surprisingly &; Hua Meng series, Marubeni V series and Four Seasons series.

Miyuki Miyabe: A rare novelist in the history of Japanese literature, with a wide range of creative subjects, including history, fantasy and reasoning. 1987, the first novel "My Neighbor's Crime" won the newcomer award for reading all the mystery novels and entered the literary world. Then 1992, Long Mian won the Japanese Association of Inferior Writers Award. 1999 The Reason won the Naoki Award; The Imitator, which took four years to complete, not only set a record of sales of1300,000 copies, but also brought unprecedented "six crowns" honor to the Japanese publishing industry. Among the six awards of "Six Crowns", there are the 52nd Art Selection Award, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and the 5th Ryotaro Shiba Award, which endorse the literary position of the Ministry. Her novels analyze human nature and psychology, and her works often top the bestseller list.

Keigo Higashino: A famous writer of mystery novels. His early works after school won the Edogawa prize for random dance steps. The early works are about cool and lively campus reasoning, and the middle is about super. Murder and Rules of a Famous Detective are full of black humor, as well as the transformation to the social school. White Night Walk, Red Finger, Lake Murder and Secret all have certain social significance, and The Dedication of Suspect X is his most classic masterpiece. Galileo was broadcast in Japan a few days ago, and gained a lot of ratings.

[Edit this paragraph] The famous detective in the novel

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Sherlock Holmes: The characters in Conan Doyle's novels are the representatives of the current detectives. I like smoking, pay great attention to the details of the scene, and have a wide range of knowledge, which is more important than learning any knowledge that is helpful for reasoning. The assistant is Watson.

Arsène Lupin: The Thief Gentleman Written by French Thief Lu Brown. Love to rob the rich and help the poor without killing people.

Hercule poirot: As the first detective written by agatha christie, he is a former Belgian detective with an egg-shaped head and a proud moustache, which is characterized by neatness. The investigation of a case pays attention to people's psychology rather than obtaining evidence on the spot. The assistant is Hastings.

Miss Ma Puer: They were all created by agatha christie. She was over 70 years old when she appeared. She was a kind single old woman. It is more important to meet a case than to talk to someone concerned. It is believed that chatting can find lies best and is more important than human factors. The so-called "detective in the easy chair" is typical.

Ellery queen: The detective of the same name created by ellery queen is also a mystery writer. He has a detective father.

Drury lane: Co-founded by Ellie Quinn, he is a retired Shakespeare actor. He is deaf, but he can read lips quickly. I like Shakespeare very much

Philo Vance: Van Dyne's detective is an art connoisseur.

Matthew Scudder: A famous detective founded by lawrence block, a police officer who resigned drunk because of the accidental killing of a little girl. Later, he became a private investigator and joined an anonymous abstinence club, but he still liked bourbon best. Activities in new york, is a typical "resident detective".

Donald trump Nuo: Stanley Judno's scrawny assistant private investigator used to be a practicing lawyer, but later he was disbarred, so he often used legal loopholes to avoid the police.

Japan

Kosuke Kindaichi (きんだぃちこぅすけ):) A famous detective in Hengsan's official history works is said to be better at probing the situation. Jin Tianyi is one of the few detectives who attaches great importance to the relationship between the police and the people. The police officers he cooperates with include the police departments in Ishikawa, Donglimu and Orange.

ぁけちこごろぅ): Zhi Ming Kogoro is a gentleman detective written by Edogawa Langbo and has a charming appearance. Assistants include his wife, wise man Dai and bear. His sworn enemies have twenty faces and Jin Mianju.

Guan Xugui (かみづきょぅすけ):

Mitarai Ito (みたらぃきよし): An eccentric detective created by Teru Shimada Zonger, whose name is often teased because mitarai is synonymous with bathroom in Japanese and rose in astrological killing magic.

Teru Shimada Ito (たじまきよし), a detective of Ayazuyuki, is quite active in the author's series of works.

とつがわけぃぶ): Shi Jinchuan Police Department, whose real name is Shi Jinchuan Province III, is a frequent figure in Kyotaro Nishimura's travel reasoning novels. He worked in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and together with his subordinate Kamei Xing Police, he was once dubbed as the busiest policeman in Japan.

Imho Hirohiko (ぁさみみつひこ):

Himura Hideo

Money forms are equal (ぜにがたへぃじ).

Tao: China's exploration in Chen's novels.

Nishikawa Chuangping (さぃかわそぅへぃ): The detective image created by Mori Yoshiro, a professor at a science and engineering university in Nishikawa & Hua Meng, is often involved in murder cases because of the teacher's daughter's dream of wild flowers in the west.

Second-order Tang Lanzi: active in the novels of second-order Li Tangren. Among them, the world's longest mystery novel, The Horror City of Jinluyuan: Wolf Journey, is one of its active works.

China

Chen Chali: American writer Earl? Chinese detective written by Count Del Biggs.

Di Renjie: Di Renjie in the mystery novel was written by a Dutch diplomat in China (Dr. Robert H. Van Gulik, 19 10- 1967), and he also translated Di Gong Case.

Hawthorne: Known as Sherlock Holmes in China, the author is Cheng Xiaoqing, a writer of the Republic of China.

The following is a list of the main elements of reasoning and intrigue in Benguer's murder-themed mystery novels, most of which are written in the clown's novels with the reference of "Running Water in a Cool Courtyard".

-Storm Villa (Island)

-Long-range killing

-An insignificant killing

-Chamber of Secrets Murder

-Imitation killing

headless corpse

-Body decoration

-Body exchange

-The body's gone.

-Exchange killings

-Using murder.

-Physical skills (machinery, mirrors)

-Narrative skills

-Physiological skills (color blindness, handedness)

-Animal tricks

-Role deception (gender, multiple identities)

twins

-Detective/murderer swap

-Code word

-Sequence

Diary, suicide note

-Work in progress

-crossword puzzles

An alibi.

The lost ring

-Misleading

-Death information

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