After the college entrance examination, Zhang Chu, who had taken the exam twice, did not let go like others in a carnival, he devoted himself to the writing of "Detective Sherlock".

With the support of many prestige points, he finally finished the short story on June 10, and there is still a few time before the deadline.

"I thought you wouldn't be in time, show me the plot later!"

Zhang Bowen is not polite at all, he has been coveting Zhang Chu's novel for a long time, in the middle of which the taxi driver kills people with poison, and Sherlock Holmes takes his new tenant and assistant John Watson to start a journey to solve the case.

After the killer murdered Jennifer Wilson, he dumped the box she left in the car down the street, and whoever got the pink box would be eye-catching.

Relying only on this pink box, Sherlock gradually locked on the murderer, so the name of this short story is called Pink Research!

Of course, this case is based on A Study in Scarlet Letters, which is considered to be the first case of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

"From a horse-drawn carriage to a taxi, and the identity of the dead has also changed, there is also foreshadowing, right, the taxi driver can't complete this level of murder, there must be someone behind it. Are you going to expand this short story into a long one?"

As a reader, Zhang Bowen is undoubtedly qualified, even excellent.

Zhang Chu nodded, he does have ambitions in this regard, since he has written one article, he will simply keep it and slowly write the rest of it in the future to form a complete novel.

"Dad, what do you think?"

"If this novel doesn't make the cut, then they must be blind!" Zhang Bowen said categorically, but there was a little melancholy in his heart.

The blue is better than the blue, and his son's first time writing a novel turned out to be much better than his own, and he was relieved and had enough knowledge of his writing talent.

After hearing his father say this, Zhang Chu finally relaxed a little,

The success of the adaptation of this case is a matter of opinion, and Zhang Chu left the decision to the editors of the magazine.

He added the document to an email and sent it to Time Reasoning magazine!

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Founded in 2006, it was originally a series of books in cooperation with Pearl Publishing House, and later due to the good response of the market, it began to cooperate with Time Magazine, and has since officially become a monthly magazine.

It is known as the first brand of domestic mystery magazines, mainly publishing mystery books that publish original mystery detective literature, and most of the readers are high school students, college students, white-collar workers and senior intellectuals.

This time, it is unprecedented to cooperate with Warner Bros., the publisher of "Sherlock Holmes", to host the Sherlock Holmes Fan Essay Contest in China, which is tantamount to greatly enhancing the influence of "Time Reasoning" among ordinary people!

Yanjing, on the 31st floor of Huateng Beitang Business Building, the editors of Time Reasoning Magazine have already started today's work, and they have a month to select the works to be published next month.

"It's almost halfway through this month, do you have any excellent manuscripts on hand?"

Chen Haodong opened his mouth to ask, as the editor-in-chief of "Reasoning of the Years", he has a lot of burden, and he is always worried that there will be no manuscripts and fewer readers, so that the journal will be suspended.

Their magazine is not as good as a publishing house, and the publishing house still has the support of the state, the government and even the corresponding government units.

A young man wearing thick glasses stood up, shook his head and said, "Mr. Chen, we have received a lot of manuscripts recently, but many of them are indiscriminate, and there are even some plagiarism. ”

When the magazine was founded, it was already a lonely period for the paper media, and until now, the editorial department is a big cat and a kitten, and most of the old people in the magazine have resigned, and the young editors who are now recruited are empty-blooded, but they are powerless to change anything.

Chen Haodong couldn't help sighing, he rubbed his temples, and was a little worried, although the recent lively Sherlock Holmes essay contest has increased his magazine sales a lot, but the hidden behind this prosperity is the lack of manuscripts in the magazine.

There are very few excellent mystery writers, and I don't know what's going on in the recent period, and I can't find a few high-quality novels.

"I hope that this essay for Sherlock Holmes can last for a while, and see if there are any good novels in this time. Chen Haodong's head hurt a little at this time, and he flipped through his email and mobile phone number, "At this time, I have to get out of my old face and ask the previous authors if there are any manuscripts." ”

Writers who are slightly famous do not submit their manuscripts by email, which is the practice of newcomers, and writers have to make an appointment in advance to negotiate the price and the content of the work and the number of words.

At this moment, a short-haired girl knocked on the door of Chen Haodong's office with a USB flash drive, and she asked, "Teacher Chen, can I disturb you?"

"Xiaoyanagi, come in and talk about anything you want. ”

Liu Qiao doesn't look like a cute girl, but she has a strong heart, she originally liked detective reasoning and suspense novels, and when she graduated from the Chinese department, she naturally entered the years reasoning magazine, which was five years, and her appearance did not seem to change at all.

"Mr. Chen, haven't I been in charge of collecting Sherlock Holmes fandom essays recently? I just received a submission this morning, and I think it's pretty good, and I think it can be used as the main theme of the next issue. ”

Chen Haodong was a little surprised, he knew that Liu Qiao's level would not tell lies, presumably that novel was really unusual.

"Now the first article on the list, "The Testament of Sherlock Holmes", you don't have such a high evaluation, it seems that you really like this one?"

Liu Qiao nodded, "I think that novel is not innovative enough, this novel is set in modern society, when Victorian Sherlock Holmes is a detective in modern society, the highlights and gimmicks are very full." ”

Chen Haodong took the USB flash drive, then plugged it into the computer and opened it, and found the document listed by Liu Qiao, "This is this "Detective Sherlock"?"

"That's it, it seems that this author is quite ambitious, and it seems that he wants to write a long article. ”

"Then I'll have to take a good look, you wait for me first, wait for me to see. ”