Endo put this 'Suspect X's Dedication' in a drawer, and there were more than a dozen manuscripts in the drawer, all of which he had screened out and thought were quite good manuscripts.

He is the secondary editor, and in the end he will select 20 manuscripts and send them to the final editor, who will rank the 20 manuscripts.

1st place.

2nd place.

Third place, one person.

Three winners.

Four selected masterpieces.

Ten outstanding works.

A total of twenty manuscripts, these twenty manuscripts, which are the most popular works of this Mystery Writers Association Award, will have a high reputation in the future.

Now this Kobayashi Takeyao's work and Momotaro's work are both regarded as the top three favorable contenders, and Lin Xiao's manuscript has not yet appeared.

Shortly after the lunch break, a primary editor sent in a manuscript, but there was still only one manuscript because it was Lin Xiao's work.

After reading this manuscript, Endo Shuto frowned.

The name of Lin Xiao's work is "Murder in the Present Formation", the story is quite exciting, and the ending is quite weird, inheriting the fine tradition of the previous "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Murder on the Nile", which is also based on on-character reasoning, but the atmosphere is very strange, and the most important thing is that Lin Xiao, as a Chinese, can use the unique human customs of the island society perfectly in this work, if you don't look at the author's name, anyone will think that this is a work written by an island person.

Such a work can be imagined in an island country, without a trace of disobedience at all. It can directly win the love of the people of the island country. So. This factor of stylistic inconsistency was ruled out in the first place, and this work is strictly speaking, compared to Momotaro's "Love Sin", it is indistinguishable, and in his opinion, it is even higher than Momotaro.

Fortunately, there is "The Devotion of Suspect X", and this work is better than Momotaro and Lin Xiao's, otherwise. I really don't know what to do.

After thinking about it, in the end, Endo was going to show these three manuscripts to the final editors first.

There are three finalists in the selection, and these three people directly determine the attribution of this Mystery Writers Association Award.

Matsushita Muji, Ono Masao, and Izumi Ida gathered together with solemn faces.

In front of them were three manuscripts, Momotaro's "Love Crime", Kobayashi Takeyao's "The Dedication of Suspect X" and Lin Xiao's "Honjin Murder".

Lin Xiao had said before that he would change his name to compete, which seemed to be the same as their guess. That's just a joke, a writer so famous. Will you change your name for fear of shady scenes? This is a matter of self-surrender, and they guessed that Lin Xiao would not do this.

Three manuscripts, one puzzle.

First of all, we must consider the quality of the three works, there is no doubt that the three works are excellent works in ten thousand, this is from a professional point of view, but if you want to distinguish who is better between the three pieces, this is a very vague choice, whether it is the scale or the boundary is not accurate.

Overall, "The Devotion of Suspect X" is better than the other two, but it's only slightly better, but when this thing is on par, it's a matter of the benevolent and the wise, and you can't absolutely say who is good, and there is no first.

In this case, it is a bit far-fetched to let Momotaro's "Love Sin" get the first place, because the other two books are not inferior to him in any way, why should he be more beautiful than the first? When it comes to the bet between Momotaro and Lin Xiao before this selection, it will cause a lot of controversy when the three are equally good.

What's more, "The Devotion of Suspect X" is obviously better. It can be called a textbook of mystery novels.

If it weren't for Kobayashi Takeyao's "The Devotion of Suspect X", they could still let Momotaro's "Crime of Love" win the award, because after all, he and "Honjin Murder" are equal, even if there is controversy outside, it will not be too big and will not cause a negative impact, but in this situation, it is a little difficult for Momotaro to win the award.

This is really a dilemma, because Lin Xiao was excluded from the award in the first place, and the most influential mystery novel award in the island country can be won by a foreigner? It's just a joke!

What's more, it's still a barren China with mystery novels? This is something they absolutely cannot tolerate.

I originally wanted to give Momotaro the award, but it looks like it's going to be given to this Kobayashi Takeyao now, and I don't know who this Kobayashi Takeyao is, this person hasn't had any works before, and looking at the address of the submission, it's really in the island country of Osaka, not from abroad, and during this time, they can confirm that Lin Xiao has indeed stayed in Huaxia all the time, and is busy competing with others for new book sales!

But give this award to a newcomer? This seems to be a little inappropriate, and in the eyes of the islanders, it is a bit incredible.

It's a dilemma.

On October 24th, "Mutants" began to be listed in the island countries, Great Britain, United States, and France.

This is the effect of Zhou Duyu's previous book "Interstellar Journey", after a successful book, readers have a strong recognition of the book, then the new work of the same author will be accepted by most of them.

In this world where there is little piracy, the benefits brought by this kind of recognition are not a little bit of a star, especially in the island countries and Great Britain, Zhou Duyu's popularity is still very high, and the results achieved by "Interstellar Journey" that year are also the best in these two countries.

Science fiction has a large audience and is very popular, but if you write more, there will be a lot of similar settings, similar plots, etc., this is not which author can plagiarize, but the subject matter has been written badly, so many plots have been thought about almost, and everything that should be written has been written, science fiction has entered a bottleneck.

At this time, Zhou Duyu took the lead in innovating, changing the style of science fiction that had not developed much, and launching a new story and setting of "Mutants".

This made readers feel very novel, and readers who were already tired of interstellar novels were instantly attracted when they saw the name "Mutants".

Judging from the name, as the name suggests, it is a mutated person, and it mainly describes people, rather than previous interstellar wars, galactic battleships and other themes, which instantly aroused many people's reading**, so that readers are willing to spend money to buy this book.

In terms of sales in overseas markets, Zhou Duyu has taken the lead. (To be continued......)

ps:Today's second chapter,The broken house is back.,Starting tomorrow.,Will resume more changes.,There's still a wedding to attend.,Maybe not five more tomorrow.,But at least three or four more.,And then tomorrow at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night.,Count the chapters owed in the past two days.,The broken house is going to work hard to start paying off the debt!