Dinner is held in the garden, with a separate pavilion on the green lawn and a long wooden table filled with Italian specialties. Pizzas covered in rich cheese www.biquge.info Pen & Fun & Pavilion are covered in thick cheese, traditional meat sauce and seafood black pepper pasta are filled with large iron plates, and Black Forest cakes are not yet served, but the aroma of grilled chicken wings and soft french fries is also charming as a presence. Not to mention, there are all kinds of thick soups constantly served, and the table is full of milky aroma.

"Ashley, you have to learn more from Alice, whether it's that "Jurassic Park" or this "Ghost Record", see how talented she is! Alice, forgive me for taking the test, not to mention the box office income of the movie, the publication of this science fiction novel alone will already make you millions of authors, right?"

Alice blinked, facing the eyes of the whole table, she smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I didn't pay much attention, because I've been busy with other things for a while, but the million-level must have arrived." Not long ago, bantams sent me an email saying that they had sold more than half a million copies in the United States. In overseas markets, the Japanese version was the first to be released, and German, French, and Italian versions are also being produced. ”

Ashley's father, Olaire's father, said to his wife: "See, Japan's strength is really getting more and more terrifying now, and it can be seen from this aspect that the first batch of overseas editions is to translate for that group of Japanese." However, the people of their nationality do love to read, and it is a very large market. ”

At this point, Alice's heart suddenly moved, and she opened her mouth and said: "When it comes to the Japanese book market, they have fully carried forward the mystery novels that originated in England. Mr. O'Llell, do you know anything about the current Japanese mystery novelists?"

Mr. Aurel pondered for a moment and said, "The originator of Japanese mystery literature is, of course, Edogawa Ranbu, the industry's highest prize for mystery novels, and the Edogawa Ranpo Award was established in his name. Well, those from the fifties and sixties are antiques to you, and the current mystery novelists ......"

It seemed like a difficult question, and Mr. Olaire thought about it carefully, but said, "I can't think of any character that catches my attention......"

Ashley's mother, who is Alice's real target on this trip, is not only dressed beautifully, but also well-maintained as a design consultant for three of the world's top brands. Sitting next to her fourteen-year-old daughter, it seems to be a pair of sisters, and even the mother and daughter flowers are not enough.

When her husband's last words fell, she sipped the seafood butterscotch and chuckled softly: "My husband is interested in speculative literature, and he has a collection of works by Sherlock Holmes, Agatha and Ed Gar Lampe. ”

So, Alice's eyes lowered, and she said, "If you look at it that way...... Last year and this year, who won this award?"

This point, in the end, is worthy of a lover of speculative literature, and Mr. Olaire opened his mouth to give two names.

"That's ......"

So, after hearing two completely unfamiliar names, Alice's eyes rolled silently.

Edogawa Ranpo Award......

This award was established in 1954 to celebrate the 60th birthday of Edogawa Ranbu, the originator of Japanese mystery novels, and has been held for the first time since 1955 and every year since then. The first two awards were for the study of mystery novels, and from the third edition in 1957, it became an award for new writers.

In terms of status, it is the highest honor for Japanese mystery novels, and it also has famous awards, including the Yokozo Masashi Award and the Japan Mystery Association Award.

As for the Edogawa Ranpo Prize, the judges are limited to unpublished manuscripts, and the judges are composed of five people each time, and they are rehired every year, and some people are hired many times. As a winner, his works were published by Tansha, a major publishing house that is famous throughout the country.

The greatest value of this award lies in the fact that most of the new writers who won the award have grown into giants of mystery novels.

Alice's question is about a newcomer who should have won the award in 1985.

Keigo Higashino.

Of course, as a Japanese mystery novelist, you can't expect the mainland people in the 21st century to know much about him, after all, people at that time often focused on success studies and teaching materials, and there were relatively few people who could read mystery literature in a state of mind.

But Alice happens to know him very well, in fact, all lovers of mystery literature in the 21st century, and even more macroscopic, but any literature lover, it is impossible not to have heard of the name of Keigo Higashino.

Born in Osaka in 1958 just 10 days before Valentine's Day, Keigo Higashino studied electrical engineering at university and later worked as a production engineer for a leading automotive parts supplier and wrote mystery novels. Then, in 1985, he won the Edogawa Ranpo Award for his debut novel "After School", and began his professional writing career.

Much of his early work was a subtle and detailed ontological reasoning, as is the case in every episode of Detective Conan. In the later period, the pen is more and more spicy, the text is rarely carved, the narrative is concise and fierce, the plot is twisted and weird, the story structure is almost unbelievable, and he is good at writing very reasonable stories from extremely unreasonable places, and his style gradually transcends the framework of traditional speculative novels, and begins to transform into a social school, focusing on paying attention to the good and evil of society and human nature while describing the case.

As such an emerging master in the literary world, his books inevitably entered the mainland market, and even with millions of yuan in royalty income, he was listed in the "Rich List of Foreign Writers" promulgated by the mainland in one fell swoop and ranked at the top. To be able to do this in the Chinese mainland market as the subject of mystery novels and as a Japanese writer, you can imagine how strong his strength is.

However, now, for the 33rd Edogawa Ranbu Awards, which is supposed to make Keigo Higashino rise, Mr. Olel has said a completely unfamiliar name?

And last year, there was no share of Keigo Higashino.

"Is it because of the butterfly effect that he wrote the book late, or did he simply not write it?" Or is there no such person in the world at all?"

That night, after dinner, Alice wandered alone in the Orel Manor. Although the maid could be seen busy everywhere, she didn't care at all, just thinking about her own problems.

"Also, after all, at the beginning, he wrote while working in an auto parts factory, maybe people suddenly liked the work of an engineer, and they might not be too lazy to write a book. Wouldn't I have a chance to copy his book and make some extra money in Japan?"

God knows, Alice bought the complete works of Keigo Higashino in her previous life, but she is still a prolific writer, and there are as many as fifty or sixty works with Chinese translations alone, and if you buy the whole set, it will cost thousands of yuan!

"Making money is secondary, people, to the extent that I am talented, the pursuit should be higher. Anyway, it doesn't take much physical effort to copy a few books, and the identity of a god-level best-selling author, coupled with the title of the richest man in the world without suspense...... Oops, how should Baidu Encyclopedia be compiled in the future? Oops, it's really worrying~"

Just as Alice's saliva was about to come out, Ashley ran into the garden and beckoned her, "Hey, Alice, let's go to the living room, it's time to talk about business after dinner!"

Alice looked at her watch, it was nine o'clock at night, although Hannah had already slipped into the bedroom in a daze, but this time was only the beginning of the struggle with a lot of homework for the students of the private middle school, although Alice was not very old, a simple meeting was nothing.

So, Alice took Ashley's arm and walked towards the house, laughing, "Do you want to share a bed with me tonight?"

Seeing Ashley's exaggerated raised eyebrows, Alice smiled cheaply.