The Queen of Crime : Agatha Christie

In the articles I posted two weeks ago,I have introduced some people that make the detective novel world more vital,in order words,they are the reformers in recent decades.Today,I would like to introduced another person who is also played the critical role but was much important in the history of the detective novel world.

Agatha Christie

Yep,the one I am coming to introduce now is Agatha Christie,who is one of the vanguards in the detective world.
Talking about Agatha Christie,there is a genre of detective novel must be concerned,that is the well-known type of detective novels,which is called closed circle(暴風雨山莊),in this type of detective novels,the story always happen in the circumstance where is disconnected from the outside world,all  the stories begin in the closed place and end in the closed place,too.the detective or the main characters have to find who is the murder(s) in the most tough background.
Of course,it is not only the hard work for the characters in the fiction world,it is also a difficult mission to the author,however, Agatha Christie,who was called "The Queen of Crime",used this way to wrote her detective novels many times,this way makes her become famous writer because her careful mind and the exact murder embed with enough clue.So the name of "The Queen of Crime" is absolute not a empty reputation.

When the ghosts meet detecitve:Kyogoku Natsuhiko(京極夏彥)

In any domain,you will find it is not too hard to find a distinct one that is much different from the other people,this phenomenon is also appeared in the detecitve world.

If I have to choose the most unique one in the japanese detective novel world,I will choose Kyogoku Natsuhiko(京極夏彥),the one who is called the only one in his genre.

Kyogoku Natsuhiko(京極夏彥)

Though he is already 52 years old,he is still looked fashion XD

 The ghost has played a critical role in the japanese culture for a long time,Kyogoku Natsuhiko(京極夏彥) has take advantage of this characteristic in his detective novels.

 In his novels,the events are always connected to the japanese traditional ghost stories,under the surface of the ghost stories,it is surprised to know that the events are actually the murders.

The new blood in Japanese detective world:Otsuichi(乙一)

In any domain,there isn't short of new blood to refresh the whole group.One of the guys that make the Japanese detective world more active is the young guy - Otsuichi(乙一)

Otsuichi(乙一)

Born in 1978,as one of the youngest Japanese writer,he doesn't just write detective novels but also involve in other parts of literary,such as light novels and essays,so when you compare his words with other detective novelists,you will find that on his detective novel,his words are more sensitimental and more affectable.

the book wrote by Otsuichi(乙一)

 When he was 17,he has won the award in order to honor young detective novelist by his first detective novel - Goth,the event of cut hand.

 The most obvious point of his features is that his novels is dark and tragic,this is not only in his detective novels buy also could detect in his other books,it's may be effected by his wide range in writing,I believe he will do another great in the Japanese literature world by his wide range in writing and amazed all of us at some time.

Japanese detective novelist

    Although detective novels traced from Europe and America,it isn't meaning that mysteries only serviced for them.
    In 1920s,a man guided the japanese detective novel jumped on to the world stage,he is Edogawa Ranpo(江戶川亂步),who use  Edgar Allan Poe as his english name to memorized the vanguard of this domain.He left a lot of ideas that not only inspired the latter detective novelist but also used in some manga.

One of the novels that created by Edogawa Ranpo(江戶川亂步)

The major character of  the manga《Detective Conan》,whose name was come from Edogawa Ranpo(江戶川亂步)

 Not only the character but also the style, Edogawa Ranpo(江戶川亂步) affected many sides in the japanese detective novels, one of the features is that their detective novels always like a big puzzle or even a quiz and finally announced who is the murderer.
Talking about japanese novelist,there is a person that I shouldn't ignore because he is the one of most successful modern detective novelists whose books have already adopt into TV series and movies.He is Higashino Keigo(東野圭吾),I can bet that once you walk into a bookstore,you must find his name on the bookshelfs with a lot of his novels.One of the reason that make he so popular is that his works are added in many reality factor,some of the murders like may happen around us,this factor make his detective novels much attractive.