The old man is telling a story, and he is concise and to the point, and the core is this, he tells it in an easy-to-understand manner, without deliberately complicating the story, but developing the story as simple as possible. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mystery novels should be like this, don't use descriptions to entangle the reader, and concentrate on telling the story is the king.

"I should have realized a long time ago that this anonymous author is a veteran who often writes stories, and his ability to tell stories is extremely powerful, is this really a Chinese person?"

Not to mention anything else, anyway, Izawa Motohiko felt that this anonymous author was definitely not a newcomer, and he even had some suspicions that this anonymous author was not from Huaxia.

One by one, the testimonies were put on the table, and the witnesses were called, and the witness who drove Messerst into the Jedi was a legrick puller.

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The passenger had a large pile of luggage with the word 'FS' on it, and he asked Buckland to put it all on a four-wheeled taxi wagon, except for a small bag he was carrying. The stranger in the wool coat saw that all the luggage was in order, paid the porter, told the coachman to wait for him to return, and walked away in the direction of the waiting room, still with his small bag in hand. ”

"'I stayed for a while,' went on to Buckland, 'and talked to the coachman about the fog and the weather, and then went about my business, when I saw the signal coming from the south end of the ordinary car to the pit stop. ’”

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There is no trickery, the human and physical evidence is simple, clear and direct, and looking at it like this, it seems that there is no trick to hide the truth, or play with words.

"Directly acquiesce, all the witnesses say that what they say is true. Motohiko Izawa said: "It's interesting, it's interesting, I like this, it's ridiculous to use this kind of witness concealment to write mystery novels." ”

Mystery novels are not non-fiction satirical novels, and the use of this kind of conspiracy is completely off the chain.

The husband's testimony increased the evidence of Messerst's incrimination, and the witnesses had to come step by step

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"The next witness was Officer Thomas Taylor, who had noticed a shabby-dressed man with unkempt hair and beard loitering around the train station and waiting room on the afternoon of December 10. He seemed to be keeping an eye out for the cars coming from Tilberry and the South End. ”

"The police were clever enough to find two independent and unrelated witnesses who, at about 6:15 a.m. on Wednesday, December 10, saw the same shabby-dressed man pacing into the waiting room and walking directly towards a gentleman in a heavy fur coat and hat, who had just stepped into the waiting room. The two of them talked for a while, and no one heard what they said, but soon they left together, and no one seemed to know which direction they were going. ”

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"The testimonies of the witnesses were all laid out one by one. Motohiko Izawa is very fond of this kind of storytelling.

This kind of clear explanation of all the evidence is 1510, so that the reader and the detective are on the same level, and the reader and the detective can compare and see who solves the case first.

That's right, "The Old Man in the Corner" is Motohiko Izawa's favorite school, called the classical school of mystery novels in Europe and the United States, and it is the purest and most classic mystery novel.

As for what classical mystery fiction is, Knox also wrote a guideline in 1928.

And this criterion is also known as the legendary Ten Commandments of Knox, also known as the Ten Commandments of Mystery Novels.

At this time, it was a little strange that Messer was not at all surprised in the face of such an accusation, which was extremely unfavorable to himself, but fell asleep in this tense atmosphere.

This is certainly not a casual description, for it has been written more than once, to be exact, many times when Messer has been so depressed and so relaxed.

With such a gesture, there must be a trump card, and sure enough, Mether took out his trump card next-

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Messer awoke from his indifference, and whispered something to his lawyer, who nodded, with a faint smile of encouragement on his face. The staff of the Cyril Hotel testified that Mr. Messer arrived in a horse-drawn carriage at approximately 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 10 December, with a large amount of luggage. That concludes the prosecution in this case. ”

"Everyone in the courtroom has 'seen' Messer on the gallows. The urbane spectators, with casual curiosity, waited to hear what Sir Arthur Ingwood had to say. This knight seems to be the most beloved figure in the judicial world today. His casual attitude and gentle language are a trend that upper-class sons and brothers are vying to imitate. ”

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So far, "The Old Man in the Corner" is fully in line with the Ten Commandments of Reasoning.

Ten guidelines for classical mystery novels:

1. The offender must be someone who appears at the beginning of the story, but not necessarily in the reader's sight from beginning to end.

2. Detectives can't use supernatural or weird detective methods.

3. There can be no secret rooms or passages at the crime scene. 4. When committing a crime, it is not possible to use poisons that have not yet been invented, or devices that require esoteric scientific explanations.

5. No Chinese people are allowed to appear in the story.

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7. Detectives themselves must not commit crimes.

I won't talk about it later, the most glaring thing may be Article 5, which is really not state discrimination, or rather, this is the environment at the time.

Known as Quinn's classic secret room novel "The Mystery of Chinese Oranges", the description of China, in addition to mystery, is evil witchcraft, as if Chinese people, everyone will.

To be honest, with Quinn's half-understood description, this "The Mystery of Chinese Oranges" is nothing more than Erer.

I don't know if it's because the damn Romer wrote the Fu Manchu series, which takes Fu Manchu as a representative of the Chinese people, and writes that he is erudite and talented, just like Faust, integrating all the scientific knowledge of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, but it is extremely evil.

Throughout the series, the protagonist in it, the white man, defeated Fu Manchu by force.

The implication is very clear, simple whites, when facing the treacherous Chinese people, can only use this primitive method to fight.

Speaking of which, Jack London also wrote the most humiliating short story in Western history, "An Unprecedented Invasion".

To sum up, Knox's fifth article is actually just trying to say that the characters in mystery novels can't carry any supernatural abilities, which is essentially no different from the second one, except that the former is about things and the latter is about people.

"It's certainly not going to be that simple. Motohiko Izawa said a word of nonsense, after all, Messer is so calm, either he says that he has a trump card, or he is an idiot, as a self-made billionaire, it is obviously not the latter.

The turning point in this case came -

ps: If you are interested, you can search for "Unprecedented Invasion", the heart of the US imperialists will not be extinguished! (To be continued.) )