"Oh! Tony, I didn't expect to see you in London, didn't you say you wouldn't dare to take a boat again? Seeing Monet's visit, Wells greeted excitedly.

Since you have come to London, you must pay a return visit to Wells, after all, people have visited me when they go to New York, and they are older than themselves, so it would be rude not to visit people in London!

Monet replied with a smile: "I did think so at the time, but after so many years, I finally became a little bolder, in fact, I went to China a few years ago!" ”

"China is indeed a country with a great sense of history, and I want to go there once when I have time!" Wells sighed.

Then the topic changed and asked, "By the way, why have your works become less in the past few years?" On the contrary, Miss Nicole's new works are continuous, right? ”

Monet waved his hand again and again: "Don't talk nonsense, it's all written by Nicole herself, I just occasionally provide a little creativity!" ”

"Well, I also believe that Miss Nicole wrote it herself, because the style of writing is completely different from yours, and it is much more delicate!" Wells nodded in agreement

In order to divert the topic, Monet joked: "The previous incident of CBS made your "Star Wars" sell a lot, and now you are far more famous in the United States than Verne!" ”

Wells smiled bitterly and said: "But I didn't want to be famous in this way, these broadcasters are too, how did this kind of thing happen, I heard that it caused quite a lot of panic!" ”

Monet replied angrily: "It's not just panic, I guess if he makes it a little more realistic, and then cooperates with other aspects, you can see the prophesied end of the world!" ”

"I didn't expect you to believe in such a thing as the end of the world!" Wells was a little surprised.

"I definitely don't believe in the prophesied end of the world, but sooner or later there will be such a day, of course, we will definitely not be able to catch up!" Monet sighed.

"Well, this is true, there will always be a day when the earth will lose its vitality, but I don't know if it will be thousands of years or tens of thousands of years later!"

While the two were chatting, suddenly the doorbell rang, Wells walked over and opened the door, and brought in a lady in her thirties, who introduced Monet: "Tony, let me introduce you, this is Agatha - Mrs. Christie, Agatha, this is the American writer Tony - Mr. Monet that I often mention to you!" ”

Hearing Monet's name, Agatha was very excited and said, "Oh my God! So you're Mr. Monet, and I love your Detective Downing series, which in my opinion is as great as Sherlock Holmes! ”

Hearing Agatha praise herself so much, Monet felt very embarrassed, after all, she is the "Queen of Reasoning" who created the classic works such as "Murder on the Orient Express", "No One Survived", and "ABC Murder", which have been imitated and learned by countless younger generations, but now she doesn't seem to have written these groundbreaking works, so Monet thought for a while and replied: "Actually, I also like your works very much, especially the "Roger Mystery", which is really creative!" ”

"Actually, I'm most satisfied with this one, but it's a bit against the principle of reasoning to write it like this!" Agatha replied with some embarrassment.

Agatha's reasoning principle refers to the ten precepts of reasoning set by Lonard Knox in 1928, one of which is "detectives must not become criminals", of course, his so-called ten precepts are not many people actually obey, and Monet is even more unlikely to obey, because the fifth rule alone "Chinese must not appear in the story", he will never obey!

So Monet waved his hand disapprovingly and said: "You don't have to care about the so-called rules set by that guy in Knox, it will only limit our creation, and when I have time, I must write a reasoning that satirizes this kind of routine reasoning works!" That's right, in fact, what Monet is thinking about is Keigo Higashino's spit masterpiece "The Law of the Detective". (If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend taking a look, it's very interesting!) ）

"Hehe, Monsieur Monet, you are so interesting, then I look forward to this satirical work of yours!" Agatha replied with a smile.

At this time, Monet suddenly thought of the Edogawa Ranbu he had met in China before, so he recommended: "By the way, when I was in China, I met a Japanese reasoner called Edogawa Ranbu, and his works are also very distinctive, if you have the opportunity, you can take a look!" ”

"Okay, I'll have to read it when I have the chance, in fact, what I envy most about Mr. Monet is that you can often solve strange cases with Sheriff Klein, and then adapt these cases into your works, if I encounter these real cases, I will definitely be at a loss, I don't know where to start!" Agatha sighed.

Then he said: "For example, your first work "The Titanic Murder", it is really not easy to calmly find the murderer in that kind of situation that is related to life and death! ”

Speaking of this, Agatha said with some embarrassment: "I saw you mention that the reason why you were able to see through the murderer's plot was because you once wrote a book called "ABC Murder", which used this method.

Coincidentally, I once wrote a similar one, and even the name and outline were exactly as you described. Of course, don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else, after all, we didn't know each other at that time, and I just wrote an outline of this book, I just want to say that it's really a coincidence, according to the words of the Chinese, the hero sees the same? ”

Hearing Agatha say this, Monet felt very guilty, at that time he lied that he had written such a book "ABC Murder" in order to solve the case, in fact, he had no intention of plagiarizing at all, and he didn't write it afterwards, but he didn't expect it to affect the appearance of the real "ABC Murder", what is this called......

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

At the end of the conversation, Agatha gave Monet a copy of the first edition of "The Mystery of Roger" signed by her, and Monet also said that he would find a copy of the first edition of "The Murder of the Titanic" and give it to her when she returned!

PS: The Queen of Reasoning is definitely a prolific writer, with about eighty or more works in her lifetime, and the reason why these three are presented separately is because all three of them have created a genre, especially "No One Survives", which created "Blizzard Villa" and "Horror Nursery Rhymes", two classic modes that we have seen countless times in Conan.