Liancheng Mikihiko's mystery novels are unique in the Japanese reasoning literary world. Mass communication routinely uses a proper noun to express his work style, some are called New Romantic School, some are called Danmei School, and some are called Danmei School. Called New Sensation.These terms are all factions of Japanese pure literature in the past. It is inferred that in the second half of the 1970s, in addition to the New Romantic School, there has never been a Tanmei School or a New Sensation School in the literary world.From this fact, it can be seen that Lienjo Mikhihiko's reasoning works are different from previous works, and at the same time, it also explains the characteristics of his works.

Liancheng Mikihiko: His real name is Kato Jingo.Born in Nagoya City in 1948. After graduating from the Faculty of Political Economy of Waseda University in 1972, he was admitted to Daiei Film Company as a graduate student in screenwriting. Afterwards, he studied in France and studied film creation in Paris. After returning to China, he returned to Nagoya and worked in His sister worked as an English teacher in the preparatory cram school founded by his sister, while trying to create. In January 1978, he won the Third Phantom City Mystery Novels Newcomer Short Story Award with "Tone Changing Two People's Haori" (haori is the coat of a kimono), and entered the reasoning literary world.In 1981, "The Boat of Calamus" (formerly known as "Return to Laichuan Love and Death") won the 34th Japan Mystery Writers Association Short Story Award, and in 1984 won the fifth award with "Night Love at Night". Yoshikawa Eiji won the Literary Newcomer Award, and won the 91st Naoki Award for "Love" (non-mystery novel) in the same year.In the short seven years since he entered the literary world to 1984, he was able to win three awards in popular literature in a row, which is enough to prove Liancheng's literary strength.

I know the process of Liancheng's entry into the world of reasoning literature and the writing of his early masterpiece "Flower Burial" series.At that time, "Phantom City" was edited by me, and an annual reasoning review and short mystery novel solicitation was held. We hired contemporary critics and writers as judges, and the reviewers were Shigeo Ouchi, Hideki Ozaki, and Junichiro Kida. They are five people including Gonda Manji, Tsuzuki Michio, Nakai Hideo, Nakajima Kataro, and Henggou Masashi. ——Those who have a little common sense in the Japanese literary world will definitely understand the characteristics of this award when they see this list of judges.

As for the first review of the review, Shigeo Ouchi (professor of the Institute of Sociology, University of Tsukuba, senior mystery critic) will be part-time.The first review of short stories was conducted by Yoichi Nikami (critic) and myself.As far as the short story review is concerned, I will read all the original manuscripts of hundreds of articles, select dozens of articles and hand them over to Ershang, who will select a few articles and hand them over to me, and finally I will decide "candidate works" (qualified to participate in the competition) Reviewed works) Five papers will be submitted to the judging committee.

I remember that when I read Liancheng’s work during the third preliminary review, I thought it was a puzzle-solving mystery novel with a very complicated structure. Afterwards, I thought it was the most outstanding work of this session, and Yoichi Nigami also expressed the same feeling afterwards.On the judging committee, it was unanimously recommended by five jury members and won the Phantom City Award. Liancheng applied under his real name Kato Jingo.This name gives people the impression of a "military general", without any "literati" atmosphere. When Liancheng won the award, in addition to calling him to inform him of the news, I also hoped that he could use a pen name. "Liancheng Sanjiyan" is his My sister learned it from her name.A few days later, he went to Beijing from Nagoya and came to the editing room of "Phantom City". We talked a lot, and I hope he will continue to write mystery novels.

Later, after Liancheng wrote two short puzzle-solving reasoning stories in the same series as his debut work for "Phantom City", he brought three reasoning short stories of different styles from Nagoya. It is the suspect reasoning that focuses on the description of criminal psychology, and the third part is a love reasoning written in the first person, named "A Bunch of White Vine Flowers" (formerly known as "The Fragrance of the Vine").These three articles are all standard works, and I made an exception to publish them in the August 1978 issue of "Phantom City".

But personally, I think the content of "A Bunch of White Vine Flowers" is very novel. I propose to serialize this form in the future and serialize it in "Phantom City".Thus, the "Flower Burial" series, in which each work is titled with a flower name, was born. The above-mentioned "The Boat of Calamus" is the sixth chapter of the "Flower Burial" series, and "Night Love" is also a work in the "Flower Burial" series. (For the "Flower Burial" series, please refer to "From "A Bunch of White Vine Flowers"" written by me in the second issue of "Inference Magazine")

Liancheng's reasoning works are characterized by tragedies of love disputes between men and women—most of them are caused by good intentions and misunderstandings.Most of the men and women in his works are good people, and there are no honest bad people.When we finish reading his works, there is an indescribable sadness. Liancheng's mystery novels can be divided into three series, and these three series originated from the three novels he showed me.The first series is purely puzzle-solving reasoning novels. There are not many works, only a few early ones.The second series is suspense mystery novels. The early works also have strong puzzle-solving elements, and the recent Lang tends to French-style criminal minds.The third series focuses on the mystery-solving reasoning novels that focus on the love dispute between men and women as the motive of killing.

This book belongs to the early works of the second series.The famous detective in the five detective stories in this book is Gunhei Tazawa.But the biggest difference between it and other famous detectives is that Tian Ze Junping met a lady every time the incident happened, and after the case was resolved, Lang separated and could not develop into a couple. This kind of modeling of famous detectives may be inextricably linked. invention. In the "Postscript" of the original book, Liancheng admitted that the famous detective is the incarnation of the author, and said that the prototype of Tian Zejunping's faint love affair lies in the fairy tale written for the first time when he was a student (not published, but burned).The story is about a boy who fell in love with a girl, and the girl also fell in love with the boy, but they dared not confess to each other, so the boy wanted to tell the girl what he wanted to teach the parrot he raised, hoping that the parrot would convey it, but the parrot would only Talk to the boy, but not to the girl, and the girl imitates the voice of the parrot and speaks to the boy, but the boy can't recognize the girl's voice, and the two finally get along.

From this postscript of Liancheng, readers who like reasoning can reason about why Liancheng is single and unmarried.