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Kawai Shinta stood up from his seat and walked to the ballot box, "Okay everyone, now I'm going to start counting the votes for these three shortlisted works. If you have any objections, you can submit them to the Mystery Writers Association after the counting is over."

After saying this, he was about to take out the five ballots. On the other side, the assistant had already taken out a pen and paper, ready to count.

Which work can win this newcomer award?Kawai Shinta was actually a little curious.

"Spiral Staircase" is a work of the Benge style, with some suspenseful elements mixed in.

"The Third Person Behind", a suspenseful work, contains a certain sociality.

"Death by Wrongdoing" is not only a work of the Benge School, but also includes the discussion of human nature.

The five writers on the scene are Benge, New Benge, Society, Suspense and Coldness.

No matter how you look at it, this voting, the secret confrontation and predictions are no less than a wonderful reasoning.

Let yourself discover the ending.

Hehexin thought too much, then reached in, took out the votes one by one and started counting.

After a while, he put the ticket back, coughed and said: "The final result is..."

Kawai Shinta took a special look at the people off the court, and found that everyone's expressions were calm and breezy, and felt a little bored.

But he continued to say: "Three votes for "Wrongful Death", two votes for "The Third Man", and zero votes for "The Spiral Staircase."

Hearing this result, the expressions of everyone on the field changed slightly, and Yuho Morioka shook hands tightly under the table.

Very good, "Death by Wrongdoing" won the newcomer award this time.

This means that the Newcomer Award for Reasoning Literature this time is another authentic work.

She was a little excited, but also a little puzzled.

Who else voted besides myself and Haruko Takaoka?

On the other side, Kawai Shinta, who announced the voting results, walked to the front of the conference room, turned to everyone and said, "The work for this Newcomer Award for Mystery Literature is "Death by Negligence", and the author's name is Hiroto Akihara. Anyway, before the awards ceremony , I hope you teachers can keep it secret."

Hearing this name, Morioka Yuho began to recall it in his mind.

Akihara... Hiroto... the name seems familiar.

By the way, hasn't he written a series of suspense works before?

Morioka Yuho was a little surprised for a moment.

It's a bit incredible that a suspense writer rewrites the Benge style and can write it so well.

[141.1 Chapter Forty Playful Smiles]

Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Mystery Writers Association meeting room.

As the vice president, Shinta Kawai sits on an office chair and handles his work.

Yesterday, the results of the Reasoning Literature Newcomer Awards were released, but after all, there are still a few days before the awards ceremony, so the winners must still be kept secret.

In addition, before the award ceremony is officially announced, other invited guests and relevant media personnel must be considered, and relevant work related to the press conference must be done well.

At this moment, there was a knock on the office door.

Shinta Kawai said "Come in", and then a man in a gray suit walked in.

Kawai Shinta looked up and found that the other party was his subordinate, Yuxiang Takeda, who was in charge of the external public relations of the Association Award and the Newcomer Award.

"Taketa, what's the matter here?" Kawai Shinta casually asked while flipping through the documents.

Yuho Taketa stood up straight, and replied solemnly: "Chairman Kawai, I'm here this time to report something about Yuto Akihara, the newcomer award winner."

"Yuto Akihara?" Shintaichi Kawai didn't expect to hear this answer. He raised his head and asked in doubt, "Does the other party have any questions?"

You have to ask carefully about this, in case the newcomer reward has just been awarded to the other party, but it turns out that the other party has a big problem, the face of the Mystery Writers Association will not be much better.

And this kind of thing is not without precedent. A few years ago, a writer who won the award from the Mystery Writers Association was revealed to have beaten his wife to the point of miscarriage after winning the award.

Immediately afterwards, the media immediately paid attention, and even wrote an article "This Mystery Writers Association Rewards the Master's Domestic Violence Wife to Miscarriage", embarrassing the organizer of the Mystery Writers Association.

Kawai Shinta didn't want to experience this kind of thing again.

"The situation is a bit complicated," Yuxiang Taketa hesitated, "It's about Mandansha, and they seem to have imposed some restrictions on this writer."

"Mandansha?" Kawai Shinta was a little confused. He remembered that from the information he had obtained, Akihara Hiroto made his debut in a magazine called "New" in Mandansha.

Since the two are a cooperative relationship, why did Mantansha impose restrictions on Akihara Hiroto?

He stopped the work he was doing, frowned and said, "Simply tell me."

Kawai Shinta nodded, and replied: "According to the information that our public relations department has recently learned, Mandansha seems to be threatening business cooperation and demanding that other media not report on it."

Isn't this a ban?Kawai Shinta was a little surprised.

It's so strange that a big publishing house should ban a writer who just debuted.

"Do you know the reason?" Kawai Shinta asked.

"According to the information we have obtained, the opinions of various newspapers are not uniform. Some say that it is because of factional struggles, some say that the author himself is of bad character, and some say that he offended powerful people."

What a mess, Kawai Shinta shook his head, but he began to think carefully again.

From what it looks like, whether to award the Newcomer Award to Hiroto Akihara has to be carefully considered.

It's okay if the other party's private life is just chaotic, and the public and the media don't mind it much.

But if the other party has a problem with his conduct, or has done something morally corrupt, he should think carefully about it.

He Hexin thought about it too much, and asked his subordinate to go back first.

Immediately afterwards, he took out an address book in the drawer and turned to a page.He picked up the phone and called the number on the address book.

"Hello, I'm Kawai Shinta, is this teacher Tamae Seto?"

"Nothing special, just want to ask you about a writer named Akihara Yuto, do you know him, what do you think of this writer?"

"What, the other party proposed nine methods of trick design? Please explain it carefully."

Kawai Shinta originally just wanted to ask about his character, but he didn't expect to have a surprise.Immediately afterwards, he held the microphone and listened carefully.

As he listened, his pupils dilated involuntarily.

The tricks of the person, the tricks of the scene, the tricks of the time, the tricks of the murder weapon and the poison... This series of tricks and content design methods made Kawai Shinta feel surprised and surprised.