Chapter 75 commentary

On February 12th, Showa 63 (1988), the train timetable was greatly revised, the Seikan Tunnel was completed, and a railway linking Hokkaido and Honshu Island was a matter of great concern, and newspapers and TV also reported it in detail In order to cooperate with the major revision of the timetable, a TV station produced a special program about railway travel. In addition to introducing a series of railway reasoning works by Nishimura Kyotaro, he also interviewed Nishimura himself. At that time, he voted the best three railway mystery novels. The result Nishimura's work won the first prize.

Nishimura Kyotaro’s travel mystery novels, which include railway reasoning, publish more than ten full-length works a year. If Nishimura’s travel mystery novels are divided into stages, they can be divided into the Tohoku Main Line centered on the sleeper express train, and the East China Sea. Road-Sanyo Main Line and other main lines, local branch lines such as "Express Oku Tadami Murder Case" (Showa 60th), terminal stations such as Ueno Station and Tokyo Station, and "Okhotsk Murder Journey" (Showa Fifty-nine years) and other regions of the four categories. If it is divided according to the content of the mystery novel, it can be divided into "The Sleeper Express Chiyue Murder" (Showa 58) is an alibi using the railway timetable, "Night Train Murder" (Showa 50) Six years, translated by Lin Baiyou) is a time-limited suspense, "Northern Return Murder" (Showa 56) is a tracking suspense, "The Hospitality of the Murder Train" (Showa 62) is a description of arrogant criminals Wait for four.

Nishimura Kyotaro's works are full of changes in style, and are not limited to travel mystery novels. The writing period of this book is the late Showa 40s when Nishimura began to publish many novels. It is a long-length work published by Hongji Publishing House in October, 1977 (later changed to be published by Guangjitang Publishing House and Japanese Wenhua Press).During the three years from Showa 46 to 48, Nishimura won the 11th Edogawa Ranpo Award with "Scars of Angels" in Showa 40. After a short period of dormancy, Nishimura successively published long works. period. After "Scars of Angels", "D Organ Intelligence" was published in Showa 41, and "Sun and Sand" was published in Showa 42. There was no long-length work published in Showa 43, and in Showa 44 in " "Tokushima Shimbun" serialized "The Coordinates of Evil", and in Showa 45 years serialized "The Age of Disguise" in "Popular Literature and Art". Titled "Murder at the Foot of Mount Fuji", it was published as a single volume in Showa 62, and from Showa 46 to 48, about four to six full-length works were published a year.

First of all, in Showa 46, groups protesting against racial discrimination in South Africa robbed luxury passenger ships of "The Shore One Morning", and "Escape" about young people traveling overseas murdered people, which were related to industrial pollution issues, with a girl committing suicide by throwing herself into the sea. The "House of Sin" (translated and introduced by Lin Baiyou) which kicked off and related to housing, "Hyperbolic Murder" (translated and introduced by Lin Baiyou), which first explicitly challenged readers with twins as a trick, and Ellery Kun Six novels including "Fearless Detective" (translated and introduced by Lin Baiyou) co-starred by En, Poirot, Police Officer Megulei and Akechi Xiaowulong were published, and another full-length novel "The Man from Tokyo" based on the new car test was published. (It was later renamed "The Bloody Test Run", which was translated and introduced by the Mainland People's Publishing House, and the name was changed) and was serialized in newspapers.

In the 47th year of the Showa era, besides this book, Nishimura Kyotaro also had "Hybiscas Murder Incident" related to ethnic issues and land development on the stage of public opinion island in Ryukyu. Four full-length works including "Too Many Detectives" challenged by four detectives including Eun, and "Izu Seven Islands Murder Case" in which serial killings related to marine development were set on the stage of Kozu Island in Izu Seven Islands were published. In the 48th year of the Showa era, Nishimura Kyotaro wrote a legendary mystery novel about the blood-red red-bud cypress flower legend spread on the isolated island in the South China Sea, "Ghost Woman Mask Murder Incident" (translated and introduced in Zhiwen), "The Murderer Sees the Northern Lights" about the Ainu people, and Totsukawa's first time. He made his debut on the stage, and published four novels including "Red Sailboat" with the Pacific Ocean as an alibi, the third episode of the famous detective series "The famous detective is not happy", and another "Golf Murder Incident" related to golf (Lin Translated and introduced by Bai You) serialized in the weekly magazine.

These works of Nishimura Kyotaro are the results of studying popular literature after he joined the "New Eagle Association" composed of disciples of Nobu Hasegawa's disciples after winning the Ranpo Award. In the 49th year of the Showa era, Nishimura Kyotaro did not write any novels because of his poor liver. From the 50th year of the Showa era to the 56th year of the Showa era when he almost wrote travel mystery novels, his novels varied in both genre and content. Although this book does not have a table of contents, it describes the triangular relationship between the famous painter and his wife and friends, as well as the incidents of forced martyrdom. It consists of two parts: Chapter One to Chapter Four, and Chapter Five to Chapter Ten. The woman's point of view describes the incident, and the last six chapters describe the process of tracing the truth of the incident and arresting the murderer from the point of view of the criminal police in charge of the investigation.

Ranbu Edogawa gave such a definition of mystery (detective novel): "It mainly focuses on interesting literature that uses logic to slowly unravel the mystery of crime." This book, the first four chapters are gradually disturbing Centered on the female psychology of the book, the last six chapters turn to, as the definition says, slowly solve the puzzles, allowing people to taste the joy of tension and natural reasoning. Showa forty-seven years, published as mentioned above, including four full-length works, including this book, each of which has a different theme. Although Nishimura Kyotaro has written many train travel mystery novels, due to the location and train They are all different, so each work is fresh. Is this probably one of the reasons why Nishimura's works can capture the hearts of many readers?

It is a full-length masterpiece full of Nishimura Kyotaro's charm, and it will never disappoint readers.