Ding Lu shook his head.

She felt that Jiang Yang's new book was quite disappointing.

Of course, this is compared with "Murder on the Orient Express", not with Ding Lu, a rookie.

For Ding Lu, there are still a lot of things worth learning from Jiang Yang's new work.

It can only be said that because of Liu Tao, her expectations are very high, and now there is a big psychological gap.

But—

At the end of the book, "Dr. Shepard closed the book and felt that Poirot was nothing more than that", which made Ding Lu feel that the next book might be something to look forward to, after all, Jiang Yang said through the mouth of Dr. Shepard, which proved that he knew the inadequacy of "The Strange Case of Stiles Manor".

It's just that Ding Lu didn't wait to open "Roger's Mystery Case".

She belongs to the kind of person who has better things, the more she has to save them for the end and enjoy them slowly.

Now it's dusk, and the sun is setting on the balcony.

She stood up and stretched, rubbed her neck, and planned to make dinner, and then watch "The Mystery of Roger",

Just then, her cell phone rang.

Ding Lu took a look, a group of reasoning authors and editors.

An old author named Lao Zuo sent a message: "I'm, I'm! Jiang Yang, really! What a cheat!!"

Ding Lu followed, "Yes."

She thought that Lao Zuo was talking about "The Strange Case of Styles Manor", because this gave the key evidence in the end, which was indeed cheating.

Another author followed: "Yes, the book is a good book, and there is no need for a masterpiece, the popularity depends on his wife's speculation."

Lao Zuo: "Stir up the heat? The popularity of this book still needs to be fried?!! I'm telling you, I'm on my knees reading now! I'm convinced! How can you still write like that!! I didn't think of it, what did he think!"

Ding Lu was stupid.

Lao Zuo is the voice, and you can obviously hear the tremor and excitement in his tone, as if he has seen some shocking book, this tone is particularly similar to the tone of Liu Tao calling her when he saw this book.

The author who just said that the popularity is all due to his wife's speculation: "Are we reading a book?"

Lao Zuo: "What do you see?"

"The Styles Manor Case.

Lao Zuo: "Don't look at it! Watch "The Mystery of Roger", this is a pioneering work of a palace-level master!"

"Hanging like that?"

Lao Zuo: "It's not a question of whether he hangs or not, he's the kind of—"

Ding Lu listened to the voice, and Lao Zuo obviously couldn't find the adjective, so that he was speechless for a few seconds.

The fact that a writer can express such feelings shows the power of this book.

Ding Lu couldn't help it when he heard him say this.

She put the meat back in the fridge, took out two tomatoes, planned to make a simple tomato egg soup, and then hurried to read a book.

At this moment, Lao Zuo sent a message again, and his tone was obviously much calmer this time, "This is an absolute pioneering work, even the reasoning author of the island country will bow down to this genre, believe me, I will never brag, because I am now crazy with jealousy, I especially want to go back to before yesterday, take Jiang Yang knife, I write this divine book myself!" Forget it, I'm going to watch it again."

"Wow!"

Ding Lu's eyes widened.

It's absolutely amazing that a mystery novel can make a mystery writer read it twice in a short period of time, or after knowing the murderer!

Ding Lu put the knife on the board.

What else do you cook?

Reading!

She ordered a takeout for herself, and then brought "The Mystery of Roger" over.

The protagonist is Shepard, a doctor, and the first-person narration is nothing surprising.

Many of Holmes's stories are narrated in Watson's first person.

Then again, this won't be the same configuration as The Strange Case of Styles Manor, right?

It's just that Hastings has been replaced by a doctor-

It can only be said that Sherlock Holmes is really a classic, and his influence is quite great.

Ding Lu didn't think too much about it, she continued to read and soon discovered the difference between the two books.

It was hard for her to imagine that these two books were written by the same writer at the same time, and that "The Strange Case of Styles Manor" was immature despite its mastery style; And in this book, there is no immaturity at all.

A leisurely stroll visible to the naked eye.

The suspense creation is easy to use, although there are many characters, many characters jump on the page.

Ding Lu looked at these and looked at "The Strange Case of Styles Manor" next to her, and felt that the cover of "The Strange Case of Styles Manor" was mocking her: "Silly, teasing you, is it really at this level?" Didn't you see what Shepard said?"

No!

This Jiang Yang is too wicked.

Ding Lu thought that she questioned Jiang Yang's addiction to women, and she also echoed the cheating in the group-

It's embarrassing to be able to pick and live with downstairs.

However, before she could be too embarrassed, she was completely immersed in the book.

She followed Dr. Shepard in the book, constantly collecting clues and listening to Poirot's analysis of the case.

She watched comfortably and comfortably, and enjoyed the process of reasoning very much, but, one by one, one by one, Ding Lu guessed the suspect's motives and modus operandi, but she had no clue, and the story slowly came to an end-

Ding Lu simply didn't guess.

She concentrated on reading to see who the murderer was.

And then.

And then!

Poirot: "...... In fact, this man is Dr. Shepard!"

Ding Lu's eyes widened, his hairs stood on end, and he silently said "Damn!"

Cheat!

It's so cheating!

Ding Lu felt that she had been betrayed!

How can it be like this, how can it still be like this, how can it still be fucking written like this!!

Who would have imagined that Watson next to Holmes was the murderer and shocked!

Now it is!

Jiang Yang's big fool!

"Grass!"

Ding Lu stood up and couldn't help but burst into foul language, only this word could express her language at this moment, she walked around the room, while feeling betrayed, feeling that Jiang Yang was too scoundrel, this is cheating at all!

Because in the first person, the reader is born with trust in the first person!

Now, this book has undermined that trust.

But at the same time, Ding Lu couldn't help but be convinced!

Damn it!

Ding Lu scratched his head, "Why didn't I think of writing like this!!"

She was jealous.

Let Lao Zuo be right, this is definitely a novel by the founding school.

She believes that there will be countless mystery novels to imitate from now on.

But no matter how they write it, Jiang Yang is the ancestor of this sect!!

Because this kind of trick can only be used once, the shock, the chilling scream that sends chills down the spine, like the explosion of the first atomic bomb! It's like the first bite of swan meat a frog eats! It's like a virgin touching the soul of the middle way collapse group.

Only once!

But—

How can you still write like that!

Ding Lu was too jealous.

If she had thought of this trick and written a novel in the first person, making "me" the murderer, maybe she would be the grandfather now!

After she walked around, she suddenly saw the takeout on the table, "Hey, when did I get the takeaway?"

She thought about it, as if she was reading a novel when she heard a knock at the door, took the book and opened the door, and took something.

Dare to love is takeaway.

Now that it's late at night and the takeaway is cold, she goes to warm it up and then opens the chat software.

She found that many people in the group were shocked, but there were also many people who felt that Jiang Yang was too cheating, because this writing technique fooled the readers, deceived the readers' feelings, and trampled the readers' IQ under their feet.

In the reader, they have become the stupid nephew of Poirot's fictional madness in the book!

There are also many authors who sigh that mystery novels can still be written like this, "Why didn't I think of it!"

Ding Lu had calmed down at this time.

She suddenly felt that this sentence was wrong, if there was no "The Mystery of Roger", telling a person this routine, and letting one person write it, who could write it?

For a hundred years, no one has thought of writing a novel in this way?

No way.

But why has there never been a novel comparable to "Roger's Mystery" in the history of mystery novels?

It has never been a mistake to establish a school.

As for Jiang Yang's layer-by-layer cocoon, and she didn't reveal the stuffing, so that she never guessed the murderer, and finally told her the murderer, who in the group had the master-level technique that made her scalp tingle?

After the reader knows the murderer, he looks back and sees that the story is reasonable, it turns out that the author has already given all the clues with a careful thousand-mile volt line, and it is up to the reader to reason.

Who in this group has this tricky ability?

As Shepard says in his suicide confession, "I was quite happy with my writing...... See, no, it's all the truth."

This is like Jiang Yang telling the reader, see no, it's all the truth!

But he has the ability to make the reader not guess the murderer!

As for what skills?

Jiang Yang asked Shepard to appear early at the end of "The Strange Case of Stiles Manor", which was definitely part of the plan!

She originally thought that this was a hammer that caught the reader's heart, made the reader look forward to the next book, and couldn't wait to open the next book.

And yet—

In "The Mystery of Roger", because Shepard likes to read detective novels and has read "The Strange Case of Stiles Manor", he thinks that Poirot is nothing more than that, so when someone first asked Poirot to solve the case, Shepard was not active!

Of course, there are other cover-ups in Dr. Shepard's text.

But, that should have been a point of suspicion!

But because of the last sentence of "The Strange Case of Styles Manor", readers did not feel at ease because of their trust in Shepard.

There are many more such cover-ups in the books, such as Poirot's visit to his sister after dismissing Dr. Shepard.

This should also be a point of suspicion.

But just as a suspect appears, it takes the reader's attention away.

All this makes Ding Lu think back now and be completely convinced.

She felt that the book really needed to be read again, to see how the author played with the reader.

She was just about to speak in the group. Lao Zuo spoke: "It doesn't matter if you think the author cheats from a first-person perspective, or regret that you didn't expect it, if you have read dozens of hundreds of mystery novels, you can understand that the one who can write "Roger's Mystery Case" must be a master."

(End of chapter)