Chapter 6 my detective hobby

I heard that some readers inquired about my memory of my debut novel.But the problem is that it has already appeared in another fanzine that I participated in that was released at the same time as this magazine, and I have written most of my thoughts there, so here I will recall a little bit about the innate And let me decide to be the detective hobby of a detective novelist. When I was just a fledgling, I just wrote about memories. It seemed that I didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and I was really scared.However, everything has its interest. Listening to the past stories of detective lovers should not be completely boring for you in the world.

As the saying goes, there are such kind of parents as there are such kind of children, which is really interesting. In fact, my mother loves detective novels very much.I remember when I was five or six years old, my father was not at work, and the family had nothing to do, so my grandmother rented novels about family disputes, while my mother rented Leixiang's works and sat at the low table by the stove to read. I often listened to my mother telling the plot of the story. After I was subtly influenced to become a detective lover, I entered elementary school.I remember when I was in the third grade, there was a talent show, and I was forced to perform in front of students and parents.At that time, the family subscribed to the "Osaka Mainichi Shimbun". At that time, the detective novel "Secret of Secrets" translated by Yufang Kikuchi happened to be serialized. My mother read it to me every day, so I talked about it at the talent show. The story, I remember that the teacher didn't seem to praise me very much.Similar things happened several times later.

When I was in elementary school, I finished reading all the works of Leixiang that I got.The works I read at that time are still interesting to read now, and some works have probably been read more than ten times.When I was 12 or 13 years old, my grandmother and I went to hot springs to recuperate. We borrowed "Ghost Tower" from the bookstore there. When I was about to graduate from high school, I, a country bumpkin, had never even heard the name Conan Doyle.Although I have never heard of it, I really like Mitsuki Haruna's "Dr. Wu Tian series" rewritten from the works of Conan Doyle and Freeman.When Freeman's work was published in Adventure World under the headline "Weirdly Strange Flying Dagger", I was blown away.I remember that there was a magazine "Adventure World" that published an excellent original detective story in a certain issue.The author is Kosugi's unawakened disciple Murayama Kaita, and that work is not inferior to today's eyes, it is wonderful.

I started reading detective novels in English after graduating from middle school and moving to Tokyo. At that time, I had already started working and studying.I had no money to buy books, so I had to go to the library to search for ready-made ones, so all I read were old works, and the only magazines were "The Strand Magazine" and "The Strand Magazine" (The Strand Magazine, 1891-1950), a British popular magazine, Conan · Doyle serialized the "Sherlock Holmes series" in this magazine.That's all.Juvenile by the standards of today's detective buffs, I hadn't been exposed to Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories until then.The first work I read should be "The Gold Beetle". I remember that I jumped up in surprise at that time, and I really fell in love with detective novels ever since.I read every detective story in English and Japanese I got from libraries and second-hand bookstores.But I still don't know about Chesterton, Rebel, Beeston, whose works I only read in "New Youth" later.Therefore, although it is said to have been read all over, the scope is actually pitifully small.But I am still very proud of it. I also made an index of the detective novels I had read, and I was complacent as I flipped through them. Later, they were also compiled into a book and preserved to this day.At that time, I also spent a lot of time researching on codes and so on, and tried to translate them.There are still five or six articles written by hand at that time.

As for Japanese detective novels, the first author who moved me was Kaita Murayama mentioned earlier, in addition to Junichiro Tanizaki and Haruo Sato. I can say that I am obsessed with their works.I only paid attention to Tanizaki's works after reading "Golden Death", which is quite similar to a work by Edgar Allan Poe, and I found it very interesting (but "Golden Death" is not a detective novel). I'm a born detective buff, but it never occurred to me to create my own.My major at school has nothing to do with literature, and my experience after graduation is mainly related to doing business.I have opened a second-hand bookstore, and also set up a Chinese ramen stand, but I have never dreamed of writing a novel.I will send it to "New Youth", and I am lucky to be adopted. It is my first time to submit a manuscript, and I feel very lucky.

But before that, I wrote two manuscripts that were not submitted.Both articles were completed more than ten years ago, and have nothing to do with recent writing.One is a "continuation". Mitsuki Haruna serialized a detective story on "Japanese Boy". Halfway through writing, he passed away. The magazine asked readers for a sequel in the second half of the creation. At that time, I wrote half of it with the mentality of playing, but I didn't send it out, and I still have the pencil manuscript until now.The other is a detective story of about thirty pages, written in the same period, entitled "Arquebus".I didn't have the courage to send this article to the magazine. Two or three years later, by chance, I met the cartoonist Yoshioka Torihei, so I re-transcribed the manuscript and asked him to send it to "Talk Club" or other magazines.I don't know if Yoshioka sent it for me, but the manuscript has been with him since then.It was a story related to murder. After the murder happened, the investigators tried hard but could not find the murderer. When the detective lifted the veil covering the truth, everyone understood , The vase became a lens, and under the action of the lens principle, the ignition port of the gun that happened to be placed on the side was ignited, and the fired bullet hit the person in front.I remember the same trick later on in the detective work of LeBlanc and another English writer, and I took pride in using it earlier than both of them.

It's really endless to write like this, so I'll stop here, but finally I want to record another joke, which will prove that my obsession with detectives is almost to the point of dying.That was also a long time ago, when Saburo Iwai's detective agency was recruiting detectives, and I had the audacity to come to the door to apply for a job.I took the tram and got off at the Wufu Bridge area, walked across the main road and walked a little further to the Iwai's style three-story foreign-style building office.After handing over my business card, the servant led me to the luxurious reception room.I waited tremblingly, and the director, Mr. Saburo Iwai, came out wearing a summer white raw silk kimono.I remember his white hair and childlike face, with a spirit in his expression.I don't remember what we talked about, but I seemed to answer Iwai's question, explaining how much I love "detectives" and how confident I am in detective practice.Every time I think about it, I feel ashamed, but at that time I really wanted to be a detective.

It's a pity that the other party didn't hire me, but if I really became a detective at that time, what kind of detective would I be?Just thinking about it makes me laugh out loud.