Chapter 284 "Sherlock Holmes' Study in Scarlet" Is Available in Kyushu!
Chapter 284 "Sherlock Holmes I - A Study in Scarlet" is available in Kyushu!
The movie "Leon: The Professional" tells the story of a professional killer Leon and a girl next door, Matilda, who were involved in a dangerous darkness because of an accidental encounter.
In this story, the seemingly indifferent killer Leon showed his kind and sincere side.
The girl Matilda and Leon gradually sympathized with each other, faced hardships together, and took revenge on the corrupt policeman Stan who killed Matilda's family.
Unfortunately, in the final ending, which was very consistent with Lin Qiu's style, Leon died.
The preparation process of this movie was far less complicated than "The Truman Show".
In the entire movie "Leon: The Professional", except for some explosion scenes, there were no big scenes, and the investment was not high. It was the same in the previous life. This movie with a small investment had a box office of over 100 million US dollars worldwide at the time, which can be said to be extremely successful.
After fermentation over time, it has become one of the masterpieces in the film.
Donald has already decided on the actor who plays Leon, the two most important actors in the film. When Donald received the invitation to the film "Leon: The Professional", he was also excited and excited.
Ever since "Hachiko", Donald can be regarded as a fan of Lin Qiu. In addition, after seeing "The Truman Show", Li Jie became popular in Jiuzhou. How could Donald not be moved?
After seeing the script of this movie, Donald was very excited. He has been concentrating on figuring out the role and has discussed it with Lin Qiu through video calls many times.
The actor who plays the young girl Matilda will audition in Xizhou. After accumulating several movies, Lin Qiu's reputation in Xizhou should be said to be very considerable. In addition, it is rumored that this movie is starring a super actor like Donald, and the young actresses in the whole Xizhou are gearing up!
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Just as Lin Qiu took a plane to Xizhou, the suspense world in Xiazhou and even Yingzhou ushered in a long-lost boom!
Xiazhou's suspense and mystery novels are not unpopular.
In Xiazhou, the truly unpopular novel genre should be science fiction, which is not competitive in Jiuzhou. Over time, the audience in Xiazhou themselves are not particularly interested in it.
Why are suspense novels attractive?
When it comes to this question, we have to mention its biggest feature, which is "using suspense to seduce readers' desire to read."
The reason why it is so attractive is that most readers have never participated in crime or anything related to it, and they have a strong sense of expectation and excitement.
And this type of novel is related to the essence of literature, that is, cause and effect connection, or simply, logic.
In this type of novel, almost all scenes will definitely point to something, echo something, and extend something.
This is very rare in novels of other themes.
Just before the official release of "Sherlock Holmes", several suspense physical book authors from Xiazhou and famous suspense writers in Yingzhou released new books before Lao Zei!
The reason for doing this is to avoid being criticized. Even if they want to step on the head of Lao Zei, it is also a fair competition of works. If it is released after Lao Zei's book, it will be a bit "sneaky".
Those who can stand up and confront Lao Zei's mystery works at this stage are not ordinary small characters!
In the suspense world of Xiazhou, there are two authors worth introducing.
One of them is an old-school suspense mystery author who has been famous for many years, Li Zhenfeng!
In the mystery world of Xiazhou, there is a stable Top 3 existence. There are only two mystery writers who can be better than Li Zhenfeng.
Just in early May, Li Zhenfeng released a mystery work after three years - "Garden Tour".
This work currently has a score of 1 on Book, which is a work that fully meets readers' expectations of Li Zhenfeng.
The background of this novel is in Xizhou, telling the suspense story of continuous discovery of corpses in the park and the police chasing the murderer.
The overall story is relatively old-fashioned, which is not surprising to readers. After all, Li Zhenfeng's works are like this, and loyal readers like it.
But the overall response is not as good as Li Zhenfeng's peak work "Advertising Murder Case".
That work, which reached 6 points on Book, is one of the few masterpieces of Xiazhou's serial suspense novels.
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There is another one, the most popular and popular suspense book in Xiazhou's mystery world, the genius female author-Peacock!
Speaking of this Peacock, she should have some origins with Lao Zei.
Peacock, whose real name is Li Liyue, is 32 years old. Since she went to college at the age of 20, she has published her debut book and made a name for herself in the Xiazhou mystery novel world.
At the age of 24, she released the Xiazhou-style mystery work "The 15th Suspect", with sales reaching 10 million.
At the age of 25, she began to serialize the Mizhou-style mystery series "Mrs. Jenny", which currently has a cumulative sales of over 100 million in Jiuzhou, and is Peacock's peak work.
The reason why Peacock and Lao Zei have an intersection is that readers and viewers can recall the moment when Xianque and Xingkong were competing for the leading position in the online literature world!
At that time, Lao Zei's book "The Long Night" attracted many suspense readers of physical books, which led to a huge increase in the traffic of Xianque!
Coupled with the huge pressure from the entire Xianque, Xingkong wanted to sign Peacock at a high price and serialize a work in Xingkong, but unfortunately Peacock directly said:
"Get lost."
After the serialization of "The Long Night Is Hard to See" ended, Kong Que even publicly promoted "The Long Night Is Hard to See" on his blog, calling it a rare good book!
However, Kong Que at that time did not expect that Lao Zei could reach this point...
It is really thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west...
From a good online writer, he suddenly became Xia Zhou's best-selling author in Jiuzhou. This made Kong Que even more curious about what kind of work Lao Zei, the suspense and reasoning author, would produce!
Kong Que never doubted Lao Zei's level!
It can even be said that every work of Lao Zei is shocking Kong Que!
Kong Que is good at criminal psychology analysis, and often has an unimaginable precision in describing the greed, desire, cruelty and darkness of human nature. This "Housekeeper" tells the story of a family of four who were all killed in just fifteen minutes on Valentine's Day, February 14th!
And the initiator of all this is the housekeeper.
Two weeks later, the housekeeper was charged with murder, but her killing was neither motive nor premeditated, neither for money nor in self-defense.
The story is set in Texas.
"Sherlock Holmes" was officially released in Kyushu in three days!
Even if she is a talented female writer in the mystery field, and may become a legendary suspense writer in the future, the popularity of Peacock's works is objectively incomparable to that of Lao Zei, especially after "Harry Potter" became a best-seller in Kyushu!
But this work has received rave reviews as soon as it came out!
The Book score reached 5 points, stepping into the threshold of the masterpiece sequence, it is like another masterpiece!
At the age of 32!
[This suspense of Peacock is more like a psychological exploration novel, and the description of the housekeeper is really perfect! Another breakthrough! 】
【The first sentence of the novel summarizes the content of the whole book, "Leonie shot Sebastian's family-because she can't read!", this work, as always, focuses not on reasoning and detection, but on the psychological activities of the criminals. Peacock is really a master in this aspect. 】
【It's just a pity that some reasoning processes are missing. Is this Peacock's problem? 】
【Compared to style, it's more like style. In fact, suspense and mystery fans still like to read orthodox reasoning. 】
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What is orthodox reasoning.
It is a mystery novel, the most authentic, most orthodox, and ancient traditional genre, which mainly solves puzzles with logic first.
Compared with the social reasoning that focuses on realism and emotion, it can satisfy readers who enjoy solving puzzles with thrilling and bizarre plots and intriguing tricks. Usually, readers and detectives are put on the same plane as much as possible, with the same number of clues, challenging readers to solve puzzles together with the detectives in the book.
Although "The Long Night Is Hard to See" is wonderful, one of the reasons why it cannot be further developed is because it is a social mystery, not a classical mystery!
It is no exaggeration.
The mystery novel world, especially readers, also has a contempt chain.
That is the classical mystery lovers, who think that classical mystery is orthodox, and social mystery is just selling feelings in the skin of mystery, and it is not a mystery novel at all.
In fact, to a certain extent, it still depends on how the content of the novel is defined, whether it is a "mystery novel with society as the stage" or a "social novel with reasoning as an embellishment element".
Most of the works that can reach the level of Mount President in the mystery world of Kyushu can be said to be classical mystery.
In the previous life, even the master of social mystery novels Keigo Higashino did not reach that height, and as for Matsumoto Seicho and Morimura Seiichi, they were also half a chip away.
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"I don't know what kind of work "Sherlock Holmes" is."
"I am really looking forward to it."
In the river view room in the Magic City, Peacock Li Liyue looked at the river view, and couldn't wait to go to tomorrow to see the new work of this old thief.
The anticipation for Lao Zei's new book even exceeded the anticipation for the feedback from the release of her own new book!
Li Liyue did not "step on" Lao Zei to get to the top. At the stage she is at now, whether she can go further depends entirely on the quality of her own works, and public opinion is secondary.
In this competition between works, Li Liyue has shown her sharp sword first, and it depends on how Lao Zei responds!
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The recent craze in the mystery novel industry has made many mystery fans extremely excited. Twelve hours before Lao Zei's new book was officially released, many mystery fans were so excited that they couldn't sleep, and their expectations were full.
Many readers set the alarm clock at 8 o'clock. Generally, this kind of popular book is delivered from the morning working hours, and the arrival time is around 8 or 9 in the morning. Because it is not a work like "To Live" or "Xu Sanguan", more young people have participated in this craze.
The next morning.
Jiuzhou readers...
are all in action!
"Get up! Get up!"
"Ugh... Saturday... Sleep a little longer..."
"Didn't you say you were going to buy Lao Zei's new book?"
"Oh yeah! Hurry up!"
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Mizhou.
"Go to the bookstore! Mizhou Bookstore doesn't stock many books by Lao Zei, so you must buy them as soon as possible!"
"I don't understand "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan", but I like mystery works. I have to say that I have never seen such an amazing author who is good at so many writing styles! Wow!"
"It is said that Lao Zei is good at more styles!"
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Yingzhou.
"I heard that this time "Sherlock Holmes" is another novel set in England, and it turns out to be a mystery!"
"I have to say that jumping from youth fantasy and magic novels like "Harry Potter" to mystery novels is really a bold attempt!"
"It's not a bold attempt. This Eastern author has written good mystery novels before."
“Be sure to buy a copy!”
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It can be said that the old thief has fans all over Kyushu!
As soon as the new book was released, bookstores everywhere were crowded with readers from all over the country.
"boss!"
"Don't worry, don't worry! Look at the sign!"
"Get in line! Don't be in a hurry!"
In Xiazhou, the owners of major bookstores have long known how terrifying the appeal of the old thief's books is.
Not to mention "Harry Potter", just say that works with themes like "Alive" can sell tens of millions of copies...
Not to mention the more popular suspense reasoning works!
No matter how this work is ultimately presented, at least the first batch of books will definitely be sold. This is the trust that the majority of readers have in the old thief.
Along with trust, comes extremely high expectations!
Ding dong——
Ding dong——
"sister!"
"I bought the novel!"
Li Liyue's assistant, Xiao Song, went to the bookstore early to queue up and purchased the book "Sherlock Holmes I - A Study in Scarlet".
"good."
"Thanks."
"What are you talking about, sister? Then sister, I'm leaving first."
"Um."
After taking the book, Li Liyue came to the study room and unsealed the thin work.
The reason why I describe it as "thin" is because this book is only about 100,000 words, so it is not very long.
I have to say that this thickness disappointed fans of the old thief at first.
You must know that the old thief's "Harry Potter" series is thicker and thicker than the last one.
But then I thought about it, yes, this is also a series of works, maybe each one will become thicker and thicker in the future?
All in all, it all depends on the quality of the work.
The quality of the work is good, and it can be admired even if it has 100,000 words.
The quality is poor, millions of words are just a running account.
Li Liyue took a deep breath and solemnly opened the first page of the book.
The quality of the pages of Xianque Academy are among the best in the industry. We dare not neglect them at all. Even if we make less money, we have to support the traffic of the old thief!
[After I received my doctorate in medicine from the University of London in 1878, I went to Netley to study the required courses for military medicine...]
1878, London, England.
In just one sentence, the time and background of the entire story are fully revealed to the readers.
The first chapter [Mr. Sherlock Holmes] begins slowly.
"The protagonist is a military doctor?"
"Medic detective?"
Because the first chapter begins with Watson's first-person perspective, readers can't help but wonder.
But just from the first few words, thousands of fans of Lao Thief are extremely excited!
The writing style is more mature and sophisticated than that of the "Harry Potter" period. Readers can't tell the difference, but they find the old thief's description more attractive!
Let readers be attracted by books in a short period of time!
Countless book fans in Kyushu are immersed in it at the same time!
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