Is persistence a virtue?It seems to depend on the situation, insisting at the wrong time will become stupid, but many times, we will appreciate those who can stick to the principle, because under the pressure of the environment and the situation, people are usually forced to give up what they have engraved on their hearts. Persistence in the heart, and those who bite the bullet and strive to the end for their ideals can be said to have superhuman willpower and romantic determination to die.In the world of mystery novels, Ayukawa Tetsu is such a principled character, and what he insists on is the creation of original mystery novels.

The term "Benge" seems to be becoming more and more common in Chinese reasoning circles. Even some readers who do not read mystery novels have gradually heard the term "Benge Reasoning". What exactly is "Benge"?In fact, to put it simply, the word "Benge" is a Chinese character in Japanese, but it is borrowed from Chinese, meaning "orthodox", and the reasoning of this case refers to orthodox reasoning novels, that is, the creation form conforms to reasoning. The "golden age" (golden age) of novels (mainly between the two world wars) is a regular speculative fiction work.

The works of this period are characterized by the fact that they all focus on the elements of reasoning and solving mysteries, appealing to the battle of wits, emphasizing the complexity of the mystery, the rigor of the reasoning, the ingenuity of the trick, and the accident of the murderer.As for elements such as storytelling, character portrayal, psychological description, and social criticism, they generally pay less attention. Therefore, with the advancement of the times, the creative trend of games and fantasy, such as "basic reasoning", has gradually faded. It was replaced by works of realism, thus becoming a niche literature.In order to adapt to the market, many writers have changed their writing directions, while some writers still insist on not writing non-essential reasoning until their death. Ayukawa Tetsu is also a representative of maintaining the original reasoning.

Ayukawa Tetsuya (1919-2002), whose real name is Nakagawa Toru, was born in Tokyo, Japan. Because of his father’s work location, he moved to Dalian, China to settle down in the third grade of elementary school, and did not return to China until college.I have liked to read mystery novels since I was a child, and planted the seeds of creating mystery novels in the future.Ayukawa Tetsuya used many pseudonyms at the beginning to publish reasoning works. He first published two short stories in 1948 under the names of Naka Chuantou and Qiangwei Koji Hajimaro, and then in 1950 with his debut novel "The Petrov Incident". (ペトロフ Incident) was selected into the "Gem" magazine's reasoning fiction long-form essay department. The story is set in Dalian, the puppet Manchukuo, and unfolds the timetable reasoning of the Manchuria Railway. The ghost police department that appeared in this work will become his most important in the future. Series detectives.

1956 is his milestone work. This novel was selected into Kodansha's long reasoning essay, and it was published for the first time under the pseudonym of Tetsuya Ayukawa. Compared with the classic masterpiece "The Cask" (The Cask) by Freeman Wills Crofts, the British "alibi" reasoning master, it is a holy book in the eyes of many reasoning fans. In 1960, he won the 13th Japan Detective Writers Club Award (later changed to the Japan Reasoning Writers Association Award) with "Black White Bird". In 1988, he cooperated with Tokyo Chuanggensha to plan the "Tetsuya Ayukawa and the Thirteen Mysteries" series of books, and successively released the works of well-known writers and new writers. In 1990, the Ayukawa Tetsuya Award was established. Tokyo Sogensha was the main organizer, with the purpose of cultivating newcomers. Ayukawa Tetsuya himself has also served as a judge for several sessions. From this award, many new stars in the Japanese reasoning literary world have been cultivated. .

In 2001, one year before Tetsuya Ayukawa's death, he was awarded the Special Prize of the Benge Mystery Fiction Award and became a veritable master.His works include forty-four novels in twenty-two volumes, as well as countless short stories. The regular detectives in the long series mainly include the ghost police department (accounting for 30 volumes in seventeen volumes), which specializes in breaking "alibi". four), and amateur detective Hoshikage Ryuzo (accounting for three volumes and six).As for the short stories, the most famous serial detective character is the bartender detective of the Sanbankan.Some of these works, to a considerable extent, influenced and inspired the later Japanese "New Honge School" mystery novels.

The characteristic of Tetsuya Ayukawa's detective novels is that the structure of the novel is very solid, interlocking and full of reasoning.The basic reasoning is basically a "hard" novel, because its essence can be said to be a mathematical puzzle, and mathematical puzzles are quite rigorous and logical, not weaving fantasy stories, let alone To package the puzzle into a novel, the total requirement is a high threshold for those who design the puzzle. Therefore, it is self-evident that it takes a lot of effort to create this mystery novel.The first time I came into contact with Ayukawa Tetsuya's works was reading his short story detective case of the bartender in Sanbankan. At that time, I was shocked by the high density of reasoning shown by the author in the short reasoning, which was admirable.After reading his long novel, I was even more impressed.This full-length novel is known as the perfect work of Benge's reasoning novels. The design is precise, layered and logical, and the pleasure of unraveling the cocoon and suddenly realizing it makes people fully appreciate the "reasoning" fun of reasoning novels.

The original form and appeal of mystery novels are original reasoning that focuses on solving puzzles and fighting wits, complicated and difficult puzzles, strange crime forms, ingenious logical deduction, amazing unexpected truths, and superhuman detectives and geniuses. The gorgeous confrontation between the murderers, these fascinating elements are the most charming of the mystery novels of this case; and all these are all in the novels of Ayukawa Tetsuya, which will definitely make readers who like to solve puzzles and fight wits , hooked and moved to tears. And this master, although he is fond of Benge mystery novels, does not just write stories rigidly according to the pattern, but actively makes new attempts of various creative techniques within the framework of Benge reasoning.For example, the novel "Whipping the Dead" is an avant-garde work of "metafiction", and the short story "Da Ye Smile" is also considered as the enlightenment work of "New Benge School" mystery novels.Tetsuya Ayukawa's active pioneering and experimental spirit in the "Benge School" reasoning novels is like the American reasoning master Ellery Quinn, who seeks innovation and change within the strictest framework of reasoning novels, which is admirable ; and his thought of supporting the latecomers and compiling the anthology is exactly the same as that of Ellery Quinn brothers. To say that he devoted himself to the reasoning of this case and died, I am afraid it is just the icing on the cake.

In the 220th issue of "Inference" magazine, an article was published mourning the death of Ayukawa Tetsuya. The author is Arisukawa Yusu, an active "Honge School" reasoning novel writer in Japan today. He gave a very high praise, mentioned the saying in the reasoning circle that "open the mystery novel, you will see Tetsuya Ayukawa", and expressed infinite regret for his death.Indeed, for the fans of the original reasoning, a writer dedicated to the creation of the original reasoning is like a rare treasure, and his departure shows that we can no longer read more "real" mystery novels, and I prefer What I care about is that the indomitable persistence behind the creation of this school of reasoning writers adds a sense of sincerity to guarding ideals in his works.

Guarding the last city of Benge mystery novels, Ayukawa Tetsu not only created high-level reasoning works rich in the fun of solving puzzles, the beauty of logic, and the thrill of fighting wits, he also told us personally: As long as you persist to the end, Benge mystery novels It is eternal!