After dreaming of getting rich, I dressed up as a collapsed idol

Five minutes later, a bearded man walked into the classroom and wrote a few words on the blackboard.

Appreciation and Analysis of Detective Novels, Professor Geng Xuwen.

This opening is quite interesting.

Zhao Tantan was shocked.

The development of mystery novels is quite interesting.

It was pioneered by American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the mid-nineteenth century.

From the 1920s to the end of World War II, it developed and flourished in Britain, and this period is also known as the golden age of mystery novels.

In the post-golden age, mystery novels became very popular in Japan, and it was also from this period that "detective novels" were officially named "mystery novels".

There are actually a lot of readers in this field in China, but unfortunately there are few good mystery novel writers.

There are many reasons, such as this type of development is relatively late in the country.

Another possibility is that it is too safe. Unlike Europe, America, and Japan, all kinds of bizarre cases occur frequently, which are even more outrageous than novels and have rich materials.

In short, there is no shortage of mystery fans in China, but there is a lack of good works. Most people go to follow foreign works.

The development of detective novels can be summarized into five types.

The orthodox school is the most classic and traditional style, with logic as the top priority.

The social school began to rise in Fuso, and the cases must have a complex social background and reflect reality.

The court faction focuses on evidence collection and reasoning in the courtroom, and the protagonists are mostly prosecutors or lawyers.

Suspense, this type of story focuses on creating an atmosphere, and there will be relatively few detailed descriptions before the case is solved.

The cold-blooded school, also known as the tough guy school, has few descriptions of solving crimes and more action scenes.

These five types can be further refined.

Detective novels have been written for more than a century, and there is actually not much to write about, and it is even more difficult to write something new.

In particular, the orthodox reasoning, as the authentic reasoning and also the earliest genre, has gone through the baptism of many famous works, and the readers' aesthetic threshold has also been raised to an unimaginable level.

If you can't write anything new, you won't be able to attract them at all.

The reason why Zhao Tantan was interested in "The Invisible X" was because the novel was quite lifelike.

Including the textual description, it gives people the feeling that you are entering the perspective of the protagonist and are experiencing everything that is happening at the moment.

This feeling comes from the first-person writing perspective.

This kind of writing style is actually very difficult to write. If the author does not have a certain level of writing skills, the readers may lose interest after reading the beginning.

And it turns out that this guy named Lu Qingfeng is quite something.

At least when Zhao Tantan saw this, he felt very involved.

He continued to read.

This is a short mystery story. The article does not focus too much on other things and the plot progresses quickly.

Because there were too few students attending this elective course, the professor decided to temporarily change the course content and play a reasoning game with the seven students present.

The name of this game is "Invisible X".

It corresponds to the title of the article.

The professor said that there was a criminal among them, codenamed X, and the others had to use reasoning to find this X.

It happened to be raining heavily outside, so the professor asked everyone to imagine that they were trapped in a mountain villa.

Blizzard Villa in my mind?

It's getting more and more interesting.

Zhao Tantan picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and began to think.

The so-called Blizzard Villa, also known as the "island mode", is a classic element in detective novels.

It refers to a murder that occurs in a closed, isolated environment. The protagonist has to solve the mystery purely by reasoning without external intervention or technology such as fingerprint recognition.

After being created by Agatha Christie in the novel And Then There Were None, related elements can often be seen in related novels and movies.

Continuing to read, the professor told everyone that X would be played by the teaching assistant. In order to prevent the prisoner from lying, he asked everyone to take a piece of paper.

X wants to write down his identity on paper.

As a result, another student came in halfway through.

This introduces an element of surprise into the entire game.

The game starts later.

There were eight people, and the new semester had just begun. No one knew each other, so the professor asked them to call each other by code names.

There are fat tigers, hairless monks, and "I" who was called Coffee because I brought a cup of coffee when I came in.

Several people in the article started a werewolf killing game.

The more Zhao Tantan watched, the more interesting it became.

Until the end, when "I" solved the mystery and my identity was revealed, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide.

"Fuck, this is possible."

His friend looked at him in confusion.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

Zhao Tantan was too lazy to pay attention to him. The emotional trauma of the breakup was gone.

He recalled the details of the entire article, from beginning to end, and found that the author had already given so many clues.

If you don't watch the ending, you won't be able to tell.

Only by combining the ending and stringing together the details can you understand how deeply the author's plot is buried.

Awesome, so awesome.

This is a typical professional misleading narrative trick.

This kind of sophisticated storytelling technique is totally not what a novice should have.

Maybe it’s a new account created by that great reasoning expert.

He thought silently in his heart and opened the next article.

Peeping into the Blue

His friend couldn't stand him burying his head in his phone all the time and said dissatisfiedly.

"Are you going to drink or not? If not, go back."

"what?"

He raised his head and then said embarrassedly.

"I have something to do at work, so let's stop here for today. We can meet again another time."

After saying this, he went to pay the bill, said goodbye and went home.

When he got home, he couldn't wait to turn on the computer and read the second article.

This time it's from a third perspective.

The protagonist of the story is Lan Youwei, a professional programmer, but he has a very perverted hobby and likes to pry into other people's privacy.

He has been following a girl named Xiaolan online for three years.

Then, following the advice of a forum user, he got the key to the girl's house and entered.

Late at night, a woman came in. He held the woman hostage at knifepoint, took her to the beach, and drowned her.

The story seems simple, with the murderer exposed from the very beginning.

But in the second half of the story, the huge reversal caused Zhao Tantan to break his waist.

The result turned out to be...

Another narrative trick.

The positive narrative at the beginning and the negative narrative in the middle of the article bring the story into a polar reversal situation.

Two perverts, and the person being spied on by them.

He would never have thought that a mystery novel could be written like this.

Part Three: "The Debut Writer Murder Case"

A new mystery writer is discussing the publication of his new work with his editor.

The editor told the writer that his work lacked soul and asked him to try killing someone.

Not only the writer in the story was shocked, but Zhao Tantan was also shocked.

What the hell, killing someone just to write a book.

The editor told him that all mystery writers have killed people, especially Mr. C who has been very popular recently.

The writer was persuaded and actually killed someone using the locked room method.

The work written this time was approved by the editor, but the writer was arrested soon after.

But his works were published.

The reason is……

Zhao Tantan was stunned when he saw the end.

Who could have imagined this?