Chapter 2 Recommended Preface Ayukawa Tetsuya: The Impossible Railway Crime Ultimate

masterpieces since.A long novel should be read in one go. If it is to be serialized, for the sake of the readers, it is best to finish it in three or four times. Therefore, we made an unreasonable request to Mr. Ayukawa, with a hundred manuscripts per time. A total of five times or so will complete this work.There are no incredible mysteries at the beginning of this article, but several foreshadowings have already been hinted, giving people full reading pleasure.Strange religions and labor disputes are also intertwined, and suspicious men who have served as spies have also appeared.How will the many foreshadowings at the beginning develop in the future? The second episode is really looking forward to. "

Tetsuya Ayukawa wrote 22 full-length mystery novels and countless short stories in his life. His masterpieces include "The Petrov Incident", (Xinyu Publishing), (Xinyu Publishing) and this book.The detectives who appear in the work mainly include Onikage Police Department, amateur detective Hoshikage Ryuzo and the bartender detective of Sanbankan. Among them, the most active Onigan Police Department has a tenacious character, and always uses the style of continuous investigation step by step to solve various alibi one by one. His delicate and reserved personality also retains a lot of puzzles for readers. pleasure.Ryuzo Hoshikage first appeared in "The Blood Curse of the Ace of Spades" published in 1958. In the layout of the Stormy Villa, he quickly deciphered various tricks at an astonishing speed. He is a veritable genius detective.The bartender detective of Sanbankan appeared in a series of short stories after 1972. His style is completely different from that of Onimuki Police Department.It is very interesting that the author always prefers to lay some clues before sending out important detectives in the middle of the story to investigate.

The one who appears in this book is the most famous of the three detectives, Onigiri Police Department.The outline of the story is as follows: A body was thrown on a moving train, and a lot of blood was shed on Liangda Bridge. After the identity verification, it was found that the deceased was Dong Zhizhi, the president of the textile company, who was dealing with conflicts between religious groups and trade unions. Ban Haosuke.After investigation by the police, it was found that there were many suspects with criminal motives, but they also had unbreakable alibi. How on earth is the Onitsu Police Department going to crack this impossible crime?And after this turmoil, will the forbidden love between the executive director's daughter Atsuko and the vice chairman of the labor union Narumi, like Romeo and Juliet, finally bear fruit again?

The themes of this book revolve around labor disputes, new religions, and love stories that always attract the attention of female readers.The timetable trick combined with the use of small props, and gradually peeled off cocoons from extremely subtle clues, cracked the murderer's perfect alibi, which can be called the author's unique design and a masterpiece in railway reasoning. From the works of the British alibi reasoning master Crawfords who was born as a railway technician, the masterpiece of murder queen Agatha Christie's life, to Matsumoto Seicho's footprints all over Japan, or Nishimura Kyotaro's railway travel reasoning and other works , the train is always a familiar and charming killing stage in mystery novels.Whether it is used as a moving secret room, or a blind spot created by matching different means of transportation and using timetable tricks, it can easily create an indispensable alibi for the reasoning of this case.If you add the introduction of the customs and customs of the scenic spots along the railway, it becomes a reasoning of travel.

Film critic Di Changhong once said: "The so-called railway is the route that can go to and from the station in the shortest time", and "The train will continue to move forward and backward, changing the direction of travel, which is a matter of course in Europe. In Japan it has become a kind of blind spot."These all explain why many mystery writers love to use trains to weave mysteries, and it is always difficult for readers to escape from the fog of railway reasoning easily. Although in the 1960s, the reasoning of the original school declined and the reasoning of the social school rose, Tetsuya Ayukawa still stood firm with the puzzle-solving novels of the original school that solved the alibi. The trick design is as dazzling and charming as magic.The realistic search combines the logical reasoning and grand tricks of the book, which earned the author the title of "Ghost of the Book of Reasoning".

Among the several common tricks of this case, the author is also good at creating alibi in impossible crimes.Alibi means that the same person cannot appear in two different places at the same time. If the suspect can produce witnesses or physical evidence to prove that he was unable to appear at the crime scene at the time of the crime, the alibi is established, regardless of the motive of the crime. No matter how strong it is, the suspect's criminal suspicion cannot be established.However, the human brain still has blind spots in thinking logic. Therefore, with the development of technology and mass transportation, transportation tools or modern products often become tricks for forging alibi.

Ayukawa Tetsuya wrote in the postscript that this work was serialized at the same time as Matsumoto Seicho when it was published, and when the novels of both parties reached two-thirds of the way, he found that the works of the two were likely to have similar endings. Matsumoto, who wrote the final chapter later, subtly modified the ending, adding an interesting episode to the birth of the book.In addition, the repeated themes of the two creations, the confrontation between the two great masters of the Socialist School and the Benge School, and the mutual agitation of different writing styles did not create a terrible bloody conflict, but a colorful reasoning with rich reasoning elements. world.

Ayukawa Tetsuya, who was called "the standard-bearer of the original school" by Edogawa Ranpo, not only insisted on guarding the tradition of original reasoning, but also added socialistic themes in his works in accordance with current events, coupled with his own rigorous writing attitude, let him Not only will he not be defeated by the trend of socialism at that time, but he has also established a personal style, stepped out of the framework of the original style and the socialist style, and even opened the door to a new style in the future.