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约瑟芬·铁伊

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daughter of time 约瑟芬·铁伊 9572Words 2018-03-22
Dystocia and infertility of time I know a smart and proud friend who prefers all brain games, including the fastest record of 87 seconds in the computer game of stepping on mines, but he never reads mystery novels. Once, he was tired of listening to all of us talking about mystery novels, so he said Ruthless, "The best mystery novel I have ever known in my life is "Fang Yizhi's Evening Test" by Mr. Chen Yinke." Good guy, it is of course a very heavy blow to use the works of a generation of historical masters to repair people. Fortunately, I have not forgotten a name: Josephine.Iron Yi.

My answer was, "Then you should read a British mystery novel called, this novel is about a Scotland Yard detective who has a special feeling for people's appearance. Can't go, can only lie on the hospital bed honestly, but thus solved a murder case 400 years ago: Did King Richard III send someone to kill the two nephews who were said to be imprisoned in the Tower of London? to keep his throne—" The daughter of time, The Daughter of Time The title of the book comes from an old British proverb: The truth is the daughter of time, which means that time will eventually "birth" the truth, and the truth will come out, and the retribution will be unhappy.

"The first strange book in the history of reasoning" Josephine.Tie Yi is one of the three heroines of the second golden period at the highest peak of classical reasoning, but she walks the same path as Agatha, who is as famous as her.Christie, Dorothy.Shears is very different. Tei made no secret of her distaste for the kind of works that are constantly copied and written to please readers. Christie has published nearly a hundred books in her life, and Shears has fifty.But Tie Yi has only written eight mystery novels in her life, and all of them are above the standard—otherwise, how could she keep pace with the high-volume Christie and Shears with one against ten, and this is the most special one among them.

To be honest, publishing this book in Taiwan at a time when reasoning reading has not yet become popular can only be said to be the fate and willfulness of an editor. Fate means that it is very difficult for you not to publish it, otherwise you will feel like you have not done something well, and you will not be able to sleep well──in the history of mystery novels, it is an absolutely unprecedented and possibly unprecedented book. Not because it is still voted by the American Detective Writers Association as the first work of historical reasoning (the second place is Umberto Ike's famous work "The Name of the Rose"), but because it is magnificent Horse's intentions, writing methods and results.Generally speaking, historical reasoning is still done in the form of fictitious novels, borrowing a certain period of time, characters, legends or event materials in history, and the writer throws in a crime story, trying to produce chemical changes from it, so as to collide with different interests It does not evade, does not invoke the privilege of "novelists can make fictions", and directly attacks a historical conclusion that is almost unshakable for four hundred years. It is more rigorous and candid than most orthodox historical works. .

This requires courage, courage + knowledge - it is not enough to have the courage to rebel, but also to have sufficient knowledge to support it. The reason why this book was published is based on the willfulness of the editor, because I personally don’t believe that fans of mystery novels in Taiwan are ready to read such a book—let me learn from Tie Yi’s courage and speak frankly. Most of Taiwan's reasoning fans are accustomed to and are content with Japanese mystery novels that are clearly modeled and lightly expressed. It is undoubtedly a work that is too dense and too serious. It's just time, but also includes a humble reading attitude, delicate thinking, a high degree of literary appreciation and a basic understanding of British history.Tei is not a writer who will please and serve readers, especially the best of them.

This wonderful book is more like a book in a bottle in the sea of ​​reasoning, written for the destined people in the vast world. "Historical Account" Well, what kind of flames were provoked?To put it simply, it challenges the 400-year-old conclusion that King Richard III has been a symbol of eternal evil in British history. If Tey is right, the records in the history textbooks that all British people have studied in the past 400 years will be completely true. Nonsense; Thomas, who was hailed as a saint by the British, wrote immortal masterpieces, and is still recognized as the first good prime minister in British history.Moore, in this incident, will become an old fool who is not clear about right and wrong, or more seriously, a villain who flatters King Henry VII and distorts history; and the great writer Shakespeare based on Moore's "History of Richard III" The play "Richard III" is a cheap and ridiculous farce.

Things are getting bigger. Next, let's explain the historical background, which is very difficult, because this period of history is entangled, and secondly, the British princes and nobles have no imagination in naming their children. They will always be Henry, Richard, Edward, Elizabeth, These limited names of Margaret are spinning around, adding chaos to chaos. Let's try to see if there is a way to make it concise and concise. If not, then I'm sorry, please read the history books by yourself. Around the middle of the fifteenth century, because the reigning King Henry VI had been suffering from mental illness and was unable to continue to serve as king, the power was in the hands of Queen Margaret (formerly a French princess), and a struggle for the throne broke out. The Great War, the warring parties were the York Party in the south, which was biased towards the common people, and the Lancastrian Party in the north, which was dominated by princes and nobles. This war lasted for about thirty years. The army is marked by red roses, so it is called the "War of the Roses" in history.

In March 1461, a decisive battle took place in Toton. The York Army won a great victory, and the British throne officially fell into the hands of the Yorkist Edward IV, which was the beginning of the York Dynasty. Edward IV was only 19 years old when he came to the throne. He was the second son of the former Duke of York. His father and elder brother were defeated and killed in the battle, and they were hanged on the city wall by the Lancastrian army. The younger brother, the third is George, who was extremely soft-eared, and was later imprisoned for rebellion and died. The youngest Richard is the famous Richard III in the future.

According to legend, Edward IV was tall and handsome, but simple-minded, and extremely feminine. After he ascended the throne, he disregarded the royal custom of marrying wives, and fell madly in love with a former Lancaster Sir John.Gray's widow, Elizabeth, is one of the most stunning beauties in British history. Before she married Edward IV and became queen, she had two sons. After marriage, she gave birth to two more boys for Edward IV. Prince in the Tower killed by Richard III) and five daughters. Edward IV has reigned for 22 years, but the War of the Roses has not really ended. The remnant Lancastrian party combined with French forces still make trouble from time to time, and there are many former Lancastrian party members in the court.The most serious one happened to Edward IV’s uncle, the Duke of Warwick. The Duke of Warwick was a hero who helped the York family conquer the world. He wanted to marry his daughter to Edward IV to be the queen. Instead, he married his daughter Isabel to George, and persuaded George to join forces with the Lancaster party to seize the throne of his brother. He once succeeded in forcing Edward IV out of London, and then sneaked into the enemy camp by relying on Richard, and persuaded his third brother anyway. At the same time, it was also relying on Richard, who was only 18 years old at the time, to defeat the Duke of Warwick, the Lancastrian Party, and the French coalition forces again in the Battle of Barnet in the outskirts of London, and the chaos was saved.

In 1483, Edward IV, who was always drunk, died of illness. At this time, the eldest son Edward V was only thirteen years old, and the second son Richard was eleven years old. Therefore, his younger brother Richard (this Richard is Richard III) was the guardian Duke.Then, according to the traditional British historical records, Richard, who was in power, suddenly transformed. From a pillar of the country who was brilliant in battle and respected his brother, he revealed a ferocious face, and suddenly became the "hunchback" familiar to the British for four hundred years. Bloody"

"Murderer", "monster" and other dirty words in English dictionaries. His crimes can be roughly summarized as follows: 1. Accusing his elder brother Edward IV of illegal marriage with Queen Elizabeth in order to deprive his nephew Edward V of his inheritance , stealing the throne. 2. Remove the royalist Lord Hastings and other three important ministers, and order Edward IV's favorite concubine Zhen in his later years.Xiu Er paraded through the streets naked. 3. In order to remove the legitimacy of Edward IV, he publicly claimed that the second brother Edward IV and the third brother George were not the biological sons of his father, the Duke of York, and undermined his mother's reputation. 4. The most heinous thing, he sent someone to murder the two little princes in the Tower of London. The heinous Richard III reigned only two years.In 1485, Henry, who later became the founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII.Tudor gathered the Lancaster army, and with the full support of the King of France, he fought against Richard III at Boswell. In this famous battle, Richard III's general Stanley rebelled, and York The army was defeated, and Richard III died in battle, officially ending the York Dynasty and officially ending the Wars of the Roses.The climax of Shakespeare's "Richard III" is the last battle of the York family. He describes Richard III's sleepless night before the battle, tortured by hallucinations (or his murderous ghost) to the point of madness, After the defeat, he shouted like a coward that he would exchange the throne for a horse to escape, and tried his best to drive Richard III into the eternal hell of wicked people. "The So-Called Tony Pandey" Here, we may have a question. If there are as many doubts as what Tei said, even if the historical account of this period is said to come from the hands of the sage Moore of the Tudor dynasty, and most people believe it, isn’t there some person who "does not depend on people?" Do the sober historians of the speeches find something amiss.Has anyone been surprised by Richard III's sudden and almost unreasonable transformation?No one noticed Richard's generosity to his opponents?Did no one notice the remarkable achievements of the British government under his rule?Thousands of British people have been blind for four hundred years. This is something that Tie Yi is very good at. He did not falsely claim that Inspector Grant was the earth-shattering discoverer of the new century in the novel (the novel has the right to do so and it is not difficult to do so). On the contrary, she let Grant and his assistants The young American Brant clearly found out in the process of pursuing the case. It turns out that different scholars have jumped out to question this matter in every century.As a result, in addition to the horror of finding the real historical murderer, the book turns to another dark corner of history that is heavier and more sentimental. In the book, Grant (Tie Yi) proposed a term called "Tony Pandi".Grant explained that this was originally a place name in Wales, and it is said that it was Winston in 1910.When Churchill was the Minister of the Interior of the United Kingdom, he sent troops to brutally suppress the local miners who were striking and protesting, and shot them. This place name has become a symbol of eternal hatred for the people of South Wales.However, the truth of the matter is that the highly disciplined policemen in the capital were sent to maintain order at that time, and they did not carry any weapons except raincoats.Grant said, "The point is that everyone who knows it's nonsense, doesn't dispute it, and now it's impossible to reverse it, a completely untrue story gradually turns into a legend, and knows it's not true. People stand by and don't say a word." Tei didn't just focus on the single incident of Tony Pandi, trying to accuse the whole of history with an absurd special case; on the contrary, through the conversation between Grant and Brant, or the correspondence with her cousin Lola, Keep unearthing more Tony Pandi.Among them, Brandt brought up the Boston Massacre before the American Revolutionary War, saying that the historical truth was nothing more than a group of mobs throwing stones at the British guards, and a total of four people died; Laura’s martyrdom in Scotland was even more exciting. A large monument is engraved with a moving holy legend, commemorating two great women who died of martyrdom by throwing water. The others, who did not drown at all, were prosecuted for collaborating with the enemy and treason, and received suspended sentences, unharmed. Similarly, those who knew the truth kept silent and allowed false legends to spread until all the living people died at that time, leaving strong legends and even stronger steles, which became the legends and tourist attractions of the place. So far, the conclusion is simple has come to an end. In this way, Tei let us further know that Tony Pandi is not an accidental special case of history, it is more likely to be a certain ubiquitous method in the casting process of historical rumors. If we think that the concept of Tony Pandi mentioned by Teyi refers to an era that is ancient and obscure, and even has no written and historical records, such as the age of Homer in ancient Greece or the three generations of China's Yao, Shun and Yu, then we can teach the truth that there is no truth. Testable historical sigh and helplessness, then we may have completely misunderstood Tie Yi's injustice and anger. The various Tony Pandi pointed out by Tey in the book are all examples of contemporary history since the Middle Ages, even close at hand.In other words, it is not because of various external restrictions that prevent people from seeing or finding the truth, but that those who witness the truth keep silent because of strange thoughts, and those who have the opportunity to hear or find the truth choose to avoid or cover up. I don't believe it.In the book, in the postscript of the letter dedicated to the Scottish female martyr Tony Panty, Laura said a caring and deep sentence, "The strange thing is that when you tell someone the truth of a story, they all Be mad at you rather than at the original storyteller. They don't want to go against their original idea, and it makes them feel uncomfortable, and they don't like it, so they repel and refuse to think about it. If they It's just that they don't care, which is natural and understandable, but their discomfort is extremely strong and obvious, and they hate it. It's strange, isn't it." "Rise up to the tall building and hit the dawn bell. If you don't believe that the world is deaf." These two heroic lines are actually extremely sad when you think about them carefully.If I am not mistaken, not believing that everyone in the world is deaf is just a belief that does not admit defeat, and it is a desperate blow. The objective fact revealed by these two poems is that although I don’t believe it, they have been deaf for a long time . "Time is the mother of all things" From Tony Pandi in Tei, we will think that time is actually a troublesome mother, she will be infertile, she will have dystocia, and when she gives birth, she will not only give birth to an only child named "truth" It's just a daughter, she also gave birth to more strange daughters. So the matter is clear, Tie Yi took the title of the book and quoted that old proverb on the title page. It is by no means a happy discovery, let alone a solid testimony. It is irony. Knowing that Tieyi is irony, the question that everyone is anxious to ask is unnecessary: ​​whether a book, since its appearance in 1951 like a golden stone, has helped Richard III to be rehabilitated Notoriety?Rewrote this historical account in the textbook? The answer is of course no.Today, British schoolchildren still have to shudder to hear the old version of Prince in the Tower, how these two poor boys were killed by a bad uncle; this bad uncle is a hunchback, a murderer, a bloody man, a monster, and a madman. People who visit the Tower of London on the River Thames, the guide book reminds you to see this grisly murder scene──As we said, the price of changing the big Tony Pandi of Richard III is too expensive, and it will take a whole four A hundred years, but also life includes two immortal giants in history: Thomas. Moore and William.Shakespeare. "Start with a portrait" However, it was not a completely futile blow. At least Tei bravely and loudly stated the conclusion she believed in, and once again gave birth to the truth of history.It's fun to say, and because of their immortal status in the history of reasoning, the old reasoning fans in Europe and the United States have become the most dense group of people on the side of Richard III on this planet—yes, time will not automatically produce the truth, she You only provide opportunities so that people don't despair. You have to work hard to help her give birth. We have another evidence of Tey’s achievements: this time Facebook published the book, and discarded the evil Richard III image intentionally drawn on the cover of the original edition. The original portrait of Richard III in the Portrait Gallery, we found that a note has been clearly added to the portrait materials: this is the original painting mentioned in the book. Speaking of portraits, Tie Yi, who has a clear and meticulous head but also beautiful writing, is in this novel that looks like a first-class historical academic work.The only part where the novelist's privilege is used is that she made the whole investigation start when Grant accidentally saw this copy of the portrait, and his strange sense of human appearance made him unable to believe that the person in the portrait was a cold-blooded perverted murderer , he showed the portrait to everyone in the ward, such as doctors, nurses, housekeepers, subordinates, girlfriends, etc., and everyone put forward a different and interesting feeling, except for one point, no one thought there was any trace of evil in it . With a leg injury, Grant could only stare at the ceiling, so he decided to probe into this murder case four hundred years ago. Facebook Publishing Company also decided to print this portrait of Richard III on the cover, and helped Tie Yi ask more people how they felt when they saw this painting. Then, the greatest detective case in history began──(※The author of this article, Tang Nuo, His real name is Xie Caijun, and he is currently the editor-in-chief of Facebook Publishing Company.) Preface Robert.Barnard never read Josephine.Blessed are the readers of Tei's detective novels.Tey was in the golden age of British crime writing (approximately between 1920 and 1950), and her status among the masters of detective fiction is beyond doubt. Josephine.Tey (1896 or 1997-1952) was a writer known only for his works. Little is known about her private life, and although her dramatic achievements are also remarkable, no one seems to care. The steady sales of her more than forty years of posthumous work depend on the novels themselves, and it is clear that these books have an enduring appeal. I would venture to assume that her readers should treat her differently than other classic crime writers: they have love for her. They treat their favorite Tey novels like they treat their favorite childhood books, such as "The Wind in the Willows", "Little Women" and so on: unconditional love. This strong bond between novelist and reader is based on trust—trust that someone is a first-rate storyteller without formulaicizing the content.Tey, in some of her best books, tries to tell all kinds of different stories in all kinds of different ways.This makes her different from the usual purveyors of mass-produced mystery stories, although those works are also quite good.In fact, in her more straightforward detective stories, Josephine.Tei often reveals her impatience with the traditional "who is the murderer" formula.For example, in the book AShillingforCandles, two-thirds of the conspiracies were not disclosed to the readers when the detectives got the information, or were only revealed before the case was solved. In other words, she has no interest in that kind of game at all, and would rather try something else, more variety. Three of her novels are written in this way, and she is at home in both crime and "normal" genres.The center of the story is still crime, but with the formulaic "a corpse in the library" Far from it.Many detective novels have been adapted from real people, but few have been as gripping as Brat Faurar, and never have our sympathies been so skillfully and astonishingly manipulated in mere puzzle-solving exercises.An almost unprecedented success (a historical mystery brought to life by modern investigation), it brings to light the admittedly sordid period of Richard III in English history, and the murder of the Prince in the Tower. renewed interest. The Franchise Affair is also based on a true story (a case in the 18th century in which a maid accused her master of kidnapping and abuse), but in her pen it becomes an allegory of the plight of the middle class. At the end of the golden age of detective fiction, Tey inevitably shared some of the less-than-good attitudes of her contemporaries: anti-Semitism, contempt for the working class, and deep unease about fanaticism of any kind (Scottish nationalism, for example, things have capricious meanings to her).If Agatha."Anthony Astor" in Christie's Tragedy in Three Acts is actually used to attack Tey, so when Christie uses "her spiritual home is like a Bournemouth boarding house" ” To insinuate that her book is serious and traditional to the point of dullness, it is quite flat. But then King was paying attention to the minutiae and ignoring the important point: Josephine. Tey's brilliant storytelling skills; the diverse, likable characters in her books; and, most importantly, her manipulation of the reader's sympathy.Such examples abound in her works, whether it is a "who is the murderer" It is still a novel with a relatively new structure.If Nagaou.Marsh or Christie died as early as Tei, and we can probably still guess what kind of novels they will go on to write.If Ey had lived longer, we guess she might have written more novels like "Who's the Murderer," but what else she would have actually written beyond that remains a mystery to us. That's what's most admirable about her. (※Rob Barnard, has written more than thirty detective novels, including the most recent homeowner. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times, and has won Anthony, Agatha, McKevity, and Nilo.Wolf Prize, now living in Leeds, UK. ) About the Author Josephine.Tey was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1897 and studied at the local Royal Academy.Afterwards, he trained for three years at the Anse Land Physics Training Institute in Birmingham before starting his career as a lecturer in physics training. Later, she quit teaching to take care of her father, who lived in Lochness, and started writing. Tie Yi, a British female reasoning writer, is one of the three outstanding female heroes in the second golden period of the most brilliant reasoning history since the 1930s, and she is also the most maverick among them.Agatha with the same name as her.Christie, Dorothy. Sears is a writer with a large output and amazing sales, but Tie Yi spent her whole life writing only eight mystery novels, eight good novels of the same standard. Tey has never concealed her distaste for a large number of copying and formulaic writing methods. She never pleases readers and only obeys the call of her own reason. Her novels are rare, rigorous, delicate and grand in composition. Occupying the most special position: she is the private choice of old reasoning fans who know Tie, have read Tie, like Tie, and become the identification witness of expert reasoning fans. Everyone has read Christie or Sears , but the old reasoning fan asked, "Have you read any of Tie Yi's novels?" Her best work, written in 1951. The introduction here is a bit exaggerated. It seems that few critics will call Christie, Sayers and Tei the three great female heroes.In fact, in terms of writing time, except for the first "The Man in the Queue" written in 1929 and the second "AShilling for Candles" written in 1936, the others are all post-war works (after 1945).Therefore, it is quite a high evaluation for Haigraf to call her work a post-war canon.It's an anomaly, ranking No. 4 in the MWA (Detective Writers of America's) Top 100 list, after The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes, The Maltese Black Falcon and Poe's Tales of Mystery and Fantasy ; It is really surprising that it ranked first in the CWA (British Crime Writers Association) Top 100 selection. ——ellry (The following are all excerpts from Taiwan Eslry) About the method... How to read Tei?For those who read novels in Taiwan, there is the simplest way. How you read Zhang Ailing, you can probably read Tie Yi. This method was suggested by Zhu Tianwen, a well-known contemporary novelist in Taiwan and known as the direct descendant of the Zhang School.This shows that Tie Yi's novels are not just the twists and turns of the plot and the shocking ending of the case. Just like reading Zhang Ailing, you will not only care about the story and the ending of the characters in the book. When you read Eileen Chang, you will read word by word, sentence by sentence, appreciate every character and every line of dialogue, pry into the subtle thoughts and malice in them, enjoy the accurate and focused scene description, and feel everything indescribably , and the people struggling in it, the passage and changes that are rich in detail and irresistible. Here, the novel is no longer just a puzzle of "how will the result be?", the novel is a whole, not a tool, and indivisible. Tey's mystery novels are not like the overhead writing style of British classics. She is the kind of writer who opens her study and enters the social reality head-on. , Feelings and betrayal, all have their origins and weight, and they have revelations.We also recommend that those who read Tie Yi’s novels pay attention to Inspector Grant in the book. In the world of reasoning detectives who emphasize wizards and supernatural powers, he is not the kind of dummy with "end enlarged", but the fullest character in the history of reasoning novels , calm, smart, tolerant, like a loyal old friend, come through storms. About the sequence... For Tie Yi, a unique master of mystery novels, we suggest a matching reading order starting from the most difficult one. That is.The first strange book in the history of reasoning, the modern Inspector Grant detected the bloody murder of Richard III 400 years ago. Here, the human malice and ignorance written by Tei do not exist in the murderer or the victim, but Throughout the four hundred years, including Thomas.Moore and Shakespeare included, the inheritance and normalcy of generations. After that.This is the best mystery novel in the history of reasoning, where death does not exist. Based on the true story of a young girl being kidnapped and coerced, Tie Yi clearly points out how people's ignorance can distort right and wrong, call for violence, and repeat such tragedies from generation to generation. . Come again.One of Eileen Chang's most delicate works, the young psychologist Miss Ping is involved in a subtle and confusing murder case after giving a speech at the girls' school, presenting the most beautiful but also the most dangerous picture among the starry high school girls elephant. The fourth book is "Singing Sands", the final work of Tei, and the last performance of Inspector Grant. 1.2.3.4. "Singing Sands" 5.6.7. "Bolai.Mr. Farah" 8. Detective Biography Allen.Grant (AlanGrant) Grant, the famous British Scotland Yard inspector, a well-mannered gentleman detective created by Tei In this ancient reasoning kingdom full of superhuman machines, Grant is the only complete and genuine " people".We don't know much about him, because he seldom brags about himself: middle-aged, unmarried, with two important women in his life, one is the smart and talkative cousin in the country, and the other is the cheerful and righteous famous actress.In Solving a Murder 400 Years Ago, he spends an entire book lying in a hospital with a broken leg; in his farewell book, "Singing Sands," he spends a fishing retreat in the countryside suffering from claustrophobia.Grant has one special interest and ability, that is, the enjoyment of watching people's appearance and the ability to remember, which helps him a lot in pursuing crimes, but more importantly, it is like a rare window that allows At the same time, he also allows those who read with him to have the opportunity to explore the subtle hidden human nature. Extension: Quoting from the introduction written by Tang Nuo in front of "The Singing Sand": Compared with all the masters in the history of reasoning, there is one or more great detectives with historical grades, Tie, the detective of Scotland Yard, seems to be Quite humble. He does not have the interesting clergy status of Father Brown, the old man in the corner without the unknown name and the endlessly knotted rope in his hands, the drugs and other eccentricities of Sherlock Holmes and his own set of case-handling philosophies and methods, and the egg-headed tip of Poirot. Strange beard shape and motto full of human insight power, without the surprise of Aunt Marble colliding with the country old lady and the fierce and sinister world, without Dr. Jazz's leisurely aristocratic status and hobbies, without Quinn's love and case-handling style, without Marlowe's poverty and iron fist of justice, without Dr. Fell's single-food focus on secret rooms, and without the indiscriminateness of unknown mainland agents and criminals Heart of Stone. Grant is a very normal person, with normal happiness and troubles, rational and irrational feelings and thinking of normal people at the same time, and a perfectly normal police identity. Such normality makes him transparent and easy to blend into our eyes Among the normal world and the vast crowd, it looks like a leaf of normal color grows in the woods. ... If Grant had any supernatural powers, it probably only had his exceptional sensitivity and memory for people's appearance, but this was not further stylized by the drama, it was just like some personality traits and hobbies that ordinary people would have. Such ordinaryness makes him seem strange in the world of reasoning, which is like a catwalk crossing the river, where the detective walks on the catwalk and appears in turn, like a normal-dressed office worker who is suddenly thrown into a masquerade ball and is out of place.However, if we expand the scope of fiction to general novels (the so-called "orthodox" novels), then Grant's appearance becomes immediately familiar and recognizable.Not only is such a character common, but it often serves as the main narrator of the novel (sometimes first person "I", sometimes third person "he", sometimes a named character in an omniscient point of view, which is okay) , For example, like Tolstoy's Pierre, or Greene's "The Comedian" Brown, the story is seen, participated in, and brought to us through their inner refraction. ... Grant is set to be Scotland Yard's detective, but we see that when crime comes to him, whether it's in the form of a specific case or just a taste of obscurity, his interest is not entirely police-like. A large part of Grant's bright eyes is simply the joy of discovery.The practical way of discovery is not to act vigorously to handle cases, but to search calmly and patiently; it is not to interlock rigorous logical reasoning or even to find evidence with legal effect, but to contain feelings, understanding and sympathy; finally, when the truth Uncovering smoothly is not a self-contained victory, but a sense of exhaustion, satisfaction and satisfaction after a long journey──My favorite ending of Teiyi is the ending description of one of the two non-existent deaths, Ge Rand quietly approached the female "murderer" who was out of revenge and did not kill, confirmed his conjecture, comforted the suspect who did not commit a serious crime, and then left with a sincere greeting and a gift. Very gentleman, very warm Understanding people, very Grant. (Tang Nuo, "The Singing Sands", Introduction, p3-12)
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