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There are 28 of Christie's books, which are arranged in a row on the bookshelf. Most of them are works of this type of reasoning, and "The Witness for the Prosecution" really surprised me as a legal subject. Agatha is indeed a detective novelist with a changeable style. I can always find surprises in her works, and the legal theme is never ambiguous. Among her outstanding works, in "The Roger Mystery", she made the first person in the book the murderer; in "Murder on the Orient Express" she simply made everyone in the car the murderer; "No One Survives" is the most classic, she In this way, a mode of detective novels was created, a closed island, a nursery rhyme, ten people died one by one according to the hints of the nursery rhyme, and the murderer was among them. Now when we watch Jin Tianyi and Conan, we can't help but find that a lot of stories pay tribute to Agatha's famous novel "No One Survives", closed islands or castles, unable to communicate with the outside world, and murders executed according to certain rules. It is so deeply rooted that Keigo Higashino once joked about "No One Survives" in "The Code of Famous Detectives", and in the chapter on Nursery Rhyme Murder, he wrote "As a famous detective, until the eighth person is killed. At that time, he hadn't solved the case yet. No, to be precise, he couldn't solve the case yet. If the matter was resolved at this time, the ten-line ballad prepared by the author would be meaningless." It's so frank that one can't help laughing. In this "Prosecution Witness", the director carefully wrote the words "Please don't reveal the ending of this movie to anyone" at the end of the film, but I have to say, halfway through the movie, I had already Guess the ending to eight or nine. This is not a complicated routine. In Agatha's "Murder on the Nile" and "Evil in the Sun", she uses this method, that is, the two people who seem to have a broken relationship are actually accomplices in murder, and then Both are superior in criminal skills. This is an embarrassing problem we encounter when looking at classics these days. The case that Sherlock Holmes can solve while sitting in a chair and flipping through the encyclopedia is too easy ("Lion's Mane" in Sherlock Holmes' new detective case), while the physicist Yukawa Sakura needs to set up large-scale experimental equipment to simulate the crime scene (Higashino Keigo's Detective Galileo series); is squeezing ketchup in "No One Survives" a crime? Take a look at "Terrorist Wolf City" and "Clock Hall Incident". They also commit murder in a secret room, and the latter two need to build a building; if you think the reversal and suspense of "Witness for the Prosecution" are very powerful, maybe You haven't seen the reversal in "The Invisible Guest", reversal, reversal, and reversal... Compared with the movie "Twelve Angry Men" of the same year, this "Prosecution Witness" also suffers , because the former discusses the reflection of human nature, which is Timeless and timeless topic; while the latter is forced to sacrifice authenticity by creating constant inversions, and is technically obsolete. This is the shackles that the Benge mystery novel world has put on itself, ignoring the truth, ignoring the rationality of motives, reasoning and criminal skills. Under such a premise, the novels published later must have newer and more subtle techniques than the previous ones, which also means that the former will always be surpassed. For the latecomers, how to keep innovating has become their eternal problem. Keigo Higashino wrote all the routines of detective novels in "The Code of Famous Detectives", but who can avoid common customs? Recently, I have been writing time-travel novels like "Jieyou Grocery Store". Many people know that the relatively good domestic reasoning TV series "Youth Bao Qingtian" has copied a lot of Sato Fumiya's comics "Juvenile Jintianichi Case Book" and "Detective Academy Q", but do they know that Jintianichi's case has also imitated Shimao Gakuji's masterpiece "Astrology Killing Magic". The reason why a routine is a routine is first of all because of the classics; following the rules and then breaking through occasionally, this is probably not just the way of detective novels. Agatha is only a detective novelist after all. Her works satisfy the curiosity of a certain group of people for detectives and perfect crimes. They do not need to be more ornate in words or profound in meaning. Her works are also aimed at entertaining the public at the moment. It will inevitably be outdated and surpassed, but when it is still imitated and paid tribute, it is still a classic. His masterpiece "Astrology Killing Magic". The reason why a routine is a routine is first of all because of the classics; following the rules and then breaking through occasionally, this is probably not just the way of detective novels. Agatha is only a detective novelist after all. Her works satisfy the curiosity of a certain group of people for detectives and perfect crimes. They do not need to be more ornate in words or profound in meaning. Her works are also aimed at entertaining the public at the moment. It will inevitably be outdated and surpassed, but when it is still imitated and paid tribute, it is still a classic. His masterpiece "Astrology Killing Magic". The reason why a routine is a routine is first of all because of the classics; following the rules and then breaking through occasionally, this is probably not just the way of detective novels. Agatha is only a detective novelist after all. Her works satisfy the curiosity of a certain group of people for detectives and perfect crimes. They do not need to be more ornate in words or profound in meaning. Her works are also aimed at entertaining the public at the moment. It will inevitably be outdated and surpassed, but when it is still imitated and paid tribute, it is still a classic.
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