There is a short mystery novel, the story is roughly like this—— A group of six roommates from a medical department of a university in central Taiwan, one of them was suddenly very anxious after the exam, fearing that he might fill in the wrong answer sheet for some reason when answering a 100-question exam paper for a certain subject, and he has been in the army ever since. Lost like a mountain, in exchange for a result of being taken.The whole mystery unfolded like this, and everyone (including the readers) spent a beautiful afternoon listening to the detective roommate explain whether the person involved had filled in the wrong answer on the test paper...

This is the outline of Lan Xiao's masterpiece "Examination Paper", which is very popular with readers, but if we extract the core mysteries and tricks of this novel, give it an appearance that suits the national conditions, and put it in European and American mystery novels in the early 20th century. What kind of comments and opinions will you get in the market? I think "boring", "uninteresting", "unattractive" are the most likely answers. Of course, I definitely didn’t rely on the author’s kindness to dare to “choke” like this, but in the writing of mystery novels at that time, such works without “corpses” were still quite rare, just like a certain twenty rules said: "Mystery novels absolutely need corpses." Corpses can catalyze emotions and incite readers' sense of justice, which has an added effect on the entertainment of mystery novels themselves. "Simple" novels like <Examination Paper> will not be accepted ( However, at that time there were still a few such as the detective story of Father Brown, which had similar performances); as time went on, mystery novels also began to evolve, no longer emphasizing blood and corpses so much, but focusing on the attraction of the mystery itself, and even subverting The essence of "crime" is eliminated, and the mystery in mystery novels is purified, and it no longer has the meaning of judicial or moral trial order.

Especially in Japan, there is a series of works called "everyday reasoning", which emphasizes an atmosphere of "everyday life". It is to cast our eyes on the daily things that we experience every day, expand and transform the points that may be incomprehensible into the focus on the stage, use personal experience, intelligence, and logical deduction to deduce the prototype of the event and return to daily life.The earlier author, Koji Toban, can be regarded as a major contributor to the possibility of creating this genre (among them, "The Child in the Green Carriage" is particularly worth reading). Recently, Kaoru Kitamura released his "Flying in the Sky?""Horse" (Pegasus in the Sky), daily reasoning has become an important type of reasoning novels in Japan (especially Tokyo Chuanggensha has published many authors who specialize in this type), such as Tomoko Ghana, Nanami Wakatake, and Lily Mitsuhara are among the best .

Also, Nishizawa Yasuhiko's "Craftsman Thousand Dawn Series" is also a work that will never be ignored. Regardless of Taiwan or Japan, many readers have the impression of Yasuhiko Nishizawa from the very beginning. This collection of short stories published on the recommendation of Shoji Shimada is not only Nishizawa's debut work, but also a collection of his famous works. The first work of the "Takumi Takumi" series, which is also known as "Takumi and Takachi" in Japan, actually has many differences from other series of mystery novels we are used to. First of all, although it is called "Takumi Chiaki Series", in fact, apart from Takumi Chiaki (Jianzai, nicknames in parentheses) who is a college student at Yasuki University, the regular characters in this series are at least cold in appearance but Takase Chiho (Gao Chien), who is quite gentle, Yusuke Hisami (Yuyo), who has the ability to get acquainted with anyone in the first place, and Yukiko Hasuke, who is innocent but loves to take care of others——Yuki is in the middle Has not yet appeared, but after the Sino-Vietnamese police department who showed their talents in the same book, they are mostly interspersed characters.The reasoning ability of these four characters is roughly equal, so the so-called detective role can also be said to take turns, and Jiang Qianxiao can only be reduced to a role of a walk-on sometimes.

Secondly, the past series of novels are generally published in the order of time in the story, that is, the story of the sequel takes place after the story of the previous episode. Occasionally, the author will let the past stories of the protagonists of the series come out (such as Shinoda Mayumi’s The book "Sakura Darkness" in the Architectural Detective series), generally speaking, it is mainly based on the chronological order.However, the series of Jiang Qianxiao has been a series of short stories from the beginning. When "the first cause disintegrates quickly", Jiang Qianxiao has already graduated from college, and when "the fourth cause disintegrates and transfers", it becomes a story in college. It was the later novel, but it went back to Jiang Qianxiao's sophomore period, and it was called "Jiang Qianxiao's first case".This combination not only brings many book fans the fun of making timetables, but also shows Yasuhiko Nishizawa's different views on the series.

In the world of genre novels, series works are full of control and calculation. The author launched a book to strengthen the characters in the book, trying to entice readers to ask "what happened to them afterward", while in the mystery novel In the series, it is "what cases did they encounter later".Especially in the world of commercial publishing, in order to meet the expectations of readers, the author has to choose similar themes and story structures, which has become the panacea and poison of the series. Although readers read the series of novels for the original feelings, they will inevitably feel tired after repeating similar emotions five or six times. state), that is, to abolish the series and start anew (some series of Akagawa Jiro stopped serialization because of the poor response from readers).

However, Yasuhiko Nishizawa chose a different path. He let the series of works under his pen break away from the single-linear time development possibility of the past series of works. Call out the endpoints and line segments, only slightly different in combination.As a result, the series has changed from a time-carrying relationship to a spatial connection relationship. Readers no longer simply care about "what happens next", but care about "how the endpoints and endpoints will be combined this time". The so-called unique style has also been established. Based on the framework of this connection, the author can abandon the restrictions on series works in the past and develop his own characters and plots arbitrarily. The series itself becomes a growing individual full of randomness. Add stimulation and you can achieve fruitful growth results.The author reverses the reader's expectations and opens up his own possibilities.

In Taiwan, most of Yasuhiko Nishizawa’s works in the past focused on his "science fiction reasoning" category, so readers in Taiwan are probably familiar with his strange and strange science fiction world, but when such an author returns to the real world—— ——How will this unsurprising world like ours change? In my opinion, there is actually no change in the interior of the novel. As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, I classify the Jiang Qianxiao series as "daily reasoning", but for those who know this series, my claim is rather strange, because it has been written since the first work. There were many killings, and there were even various bizarre reasons for dismembering the corpse; and she did not hesitate to throw a corpse in the room of the girl who had finally persuaded her strict parents to agree to travel abroad. She had to choose to discard the corpse. Keeping this rare free space; let Jiang Zai, Gao Qian, and Piao Pao seniors also see a woman fall from a tall building and die in front of their eyes. It looks like suicide without suicide note or motive.Accompanied by such a large number of corpses, I can classify the "Jiang Qianxiao Series" as "daily reasoning", which is indeed quite suspicious.

Interestingly, this is exactly the fascinating part of Nishizawa Yasuhiko's "Craftsman Thousand Dawn Series". Although there is no lack of blood and corpses in this series, the author did not deal with it in a sensational way, but plainly explained the part After the explanation, return to the reasoning process of the detective team.So rather than saying that the author's purpose is to present incredible mysteries, it is better to say that he cares more about how to solve the mystery through the process of logical and rational thinking. This constitutes a unique reading experience - "non-sentimental". Everyone in the novel does not seem to regard the case as a matter related to themselves. There are also some performances beyond normal people, like the girl in the room where a corpse was thrown for no reason, and she took the problem to her boyfriend as a matter of course, completely unaware of the troubles and moral issues behind it.Similarly, the detective team goes all out to face each case and never favors one over another. No matter whether a person is dismembered, a puppet or a poster is dismembered, the attitude of the detectives is almost the same. For them, the so-called solving the mystery is more like a part of daily life, and it will not cause any trouble if it is not solved (it may cause more trouble to the readers).

This kind of setting and technique makes it easy for us to have the same comment on the image of Gotham City when Tim Burton directed "Batman" when we read the "Craftsman Series": "credible Believable Unreality means that you clearly know that it is false and fictional, but it makes sense when you read it.This also distinguishes Nishizawa's "daily reasoning", which emphasizes the daily attitude and spirit of reasoning, rather than the daily nature of mystery. Only in this way is it possible for Nishizawa Yasuhiko to write a work like this. The book narrates that because of many chances, Jiang Qianxiao and his party inadvertently broke into an uninhabited villa in the forest. What happened when there were only thirteen tankards left besides the bed and a large refrigerator full of beer?In such a situation where there was nothing, the four people in the same company began to reason and put forward their own explanations for this strange villa.

As far as the results are concerned, in this state without a corpse, it is possible to fill a full-length novel purely by logic, which shows the author's high skill. "The indiscriminate form of reasoning in "It is impossible to contribute to the complete establishment of this novel.It's no wonder that Japanese reasoning critic Kentaro Komori once used the term "strange book" to describe Yasuhiko Nishizawa's reasoning works. After all, it is a style that no one else can write. The last thing to mention is that most of the characters in this series are addicted to drinking things in the cup, so there is a special name in Japan called "Drunken Series". Readers, please try the "Craftsman Qianxiao Series" from the beginning. Let's taste the taste of this top red wine! Yasuhiko Nishizawa's Improved Novel Easy Chair Detective Novel Millennium tradition, new feeling!Guaranteed to be good-looking and enjoyable! A huge refrigerator hidden in an uninhabited villa in the mountains, with a mountain of beer glasses and beer frozen in the refrigerator.Why are these things here? In order to solve this puzzle, a group of people drank beer and thought about it with their heads and conversations—what a beautiful setting! Nishizawa Yasuhiko often adopts groundbreaking settings, so it is easy to be misunderstood; but he is actually an orthodox reasoning writer.Basically, the success of this mystery novel depends on whether the author can convince the readers and gain approval; when the author explains the puzzle-solving process, he should not give the readers a chance to question, but let the readers nod and praise." That’s how it is.” Convinced.Such a work can be called a successful Benge mystery novel. "—I want to see cattle." Because of a word from the senior, Jiang Qianxiao and the other four went to the mountains to enjoy the nature trip.However, on their way back, the car ran out of gas, and the night became dark in a blink of an eye... Just when everyone was about to collapse after walking on the mountain road for an hour or two, an empty villa suddenly appeared.The strange thing is that there is only one bed and a refrigerator in the house, and there are only canned beer and frozen beer glasses in the refrigerator... Beds, ninety-six cans of beer, and thirteen beer mugs—the four drank beer and reasoned drunkenly about this strange scene, but found that behind this weird building, there might be something related to the important case. connected to...