When I was young, it was during the "Cultural Revolution" that I was thirsty for knowledge, but it was difficult to find books to read.Once, I borrowed Conan Doyle's "The Detective Sherlock Holmes Collection" from a neighbor's playmate. I was so hungry that I couldn't eat, I was so cold, I forgot to eat and sleep, and I read it all at once.Among the reading memories in my childhood, this detective novel is probably the most attractive to me. After the Cultural Revolution, I was admitted to the Chinese Department of the university. Since then, I have been immersed in the sea of ​​books, reading for professional study, academic research, and sometimes for recreation and pleasure.Because I am engaged in the study of children's literature, detective novels, as one of the genres, are naturally the objects of reading.However, compared with other genres, detective novels are one of the genres that can most make me forget my identity as a researcher and become an involuntary appreciator and enjoyer.In the list of books read purely for recreation and pleasure, detective and mystery novels by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Conan Doyle, Edogawa Ranpo, Matsumoto Seicho, and Morimura Seiichi are indispensable.

From the perspective of reader theory, the works of the above writers may be more suitable for reading by teenagers above junior high school.Children's literature that cares about children's reading has developed children's detective novels specially created for elementary school children.For example, "Emil and the Detectives" by German Kestner and "The Great Detective Little Calle" by Swedish Lindgren are famous works worldwide. Detective novels written for children readers have different value orientations from ordinary detective novels in terms of subject matter (case), characters ("detective"), and plot (suspense).For this question, we can gain emotional recognition after reading four works in the "Japanese Boys and Girls Detective Novels Series".

As a special style, detective novels must take cases as the subject matter.However, children's detective novels do not present all crimes like ordinary detective novels, but often avoid sexual assault and extreme violence cases. Even when murder cases are written, there is no detailed description of bloody scenes.Among the four works in this series, there were homicides in "The Secret of Rainbow Village" and "The Secret of Rainbow Village", but none of them were brutal murders.The murder in the book was actually caused by the child's instinctive self-defense. Once the murder suspense in "God of Darkness" was revealed, it turned out that there was no intention to kill.Here, we can feel that the writers who write detective novels for children consider the psychological health education of children.

There are roughly three types of characters in detective novels: the detective who solves the case; the criminal; the victim and the insider.Among these three groups, the detective who solves the case is often at the center.Most of the detectives in children's detective novels are young children, just like "The Secret of Rainbow Village", it is not the detective Hikaru who solves the truth of the case, but Yuxi, a girl who hopes to become a female detective when she grows up. The truth is mainly not adults but a group of children.Let children be active in the process of investigating cases and play an important role, so that children readers can have a strong interest in reading and obtain greater psychological satisfaction.

The core of the plot of a detective novel lies in the setting of suspense and the process of solving the mystery.The world-renowned suspense master Hitchcock pointed out: "The audience's intervention is the basis for creating suspense." For children's detective novels, if the reader is to be involved in the story, the causal relationship will be interrupted intentionally by the writer in the narrative. To connect the plots, it is necessary to set up a suspense-solving process suitable for children's readers' thinking level and reasoning ability.After reading these four works, I feel that the writer has experience in children readers' ability to read detective novels. He not only laid out the doubts of "the end of the mountain", but also paved the way to "the willows are dark and the flowers are bright".

Since Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese detective novels have a school of reasoning novels that pay attention to social aspects.It seems that the "social speculative fiction school" that focuses on ideology also has a certain influence on children's detective novels.In the process of narrating the incident where Xiaojian was involved in the death of the child king in order to save his friend Yoshino, he described the secret psychology of the child when he was looking for an unknown life. The result of Xiaojian's efforts to save his friend was that he lost his friend .Understanding the complexity of human nature, Xiaojian took a step towards growth. "God of Darkness" tells the story of competing inheritance heirs, through the plot that Kosuke's father wants to give up competing inheritance heirs, to guide children to think about the relationship between money and life value.

Detective fiction is an art of intellectual manipulation.If the reader has definitely guessed the result after reading the first few chapters, he will no longer be interested in continuing to read, and the work can only end in failure.Whether it is writing detective novels or reading detective novels, it is a battle of wits between writers and readers.From my reading experience, when the writer becomes the winner, the readers get the greatest reading pleasure.After reading these four children's detective novels, I couldn't solve the suspense until the writer explained it. I think it must not be that I am mentally retarded, but that the writer is too "cunning".This also proves that these children's detective novels are worth reading.