Edogawa Ranbo (ぇどがわらんぽしょぅ Edogawa offers a reward18941kloc-0/October 2/kloc. [Edit this paragraph] Resume 19 16 Graduated from Waseda University. Due to the poor economic environment at home, I worked as a printing apprentice and librarian during my studies. Edgar Watt Lapoul likes reading British and American detective stories since he was a child. After graduation, I worked as a company clerk, bookseller and reporter. 1April, 923 (in the 12th year of Taisho), Kazuo Hirai published the novel "Two Money Copper Coins" in New Youth, and because he worshipped edgar allan poe, the originator of mystery novels, he chose the pen name "Edgar Watt Lapol" with similar pronunciation to edgar allan poe for himself and began to write detective novels. He was the first president of the Japanese Association of Reasoning, and together with his friends, he founded Gem magazine and published detective mystery novels. 1954, the Edogawa Ranbo Detective Novel Award was established, and the prize was the statue of Sherlock Holmes. This novel has rich imagination, strange style and bizarre plot. I wrote an autobiographical memoir, Thirty Years of Detective Stories, summarizing and evaluating my life's creation. [Edit this paragraph] The characteristics of Edgar Watt Lapoul's works are confusing plots, intense suspense, full of rare mysterious atmosphere, and reasonable reasoning and judgment. It not only takes the absurd and fantastic romance as the creative theme, but also profoundly grasps the psychology of the characters, and the reasoning is rigorous and impeccable! His detective Akichi Kogoro is a household name in Japan. The common point of Edgar Watt Lapol's early works is that the background is often dark at dusk, with a touch of sadness and helplessness. Frankly speaking, this special "emotion" comes from the consciousness of the unemployed. In terms of novel techniques, the "tricks" in early works are mostly that one person plays two roles, code words. Edgwa Lapoul is not interested in the techniques of "secret room" and "overthrowing alibi", which occupy an important proportion in mystery novels. The protagonist often plays a dual role with one person, which may come from his dual personality, such as twins, ghosts, Cohen Thai events, beasts and other works, all of which play a dual role with one person. In this regard, Luan Bu said in the book "Horror Theory": "In modern British and American detective novels, 80% adopted the strategy of one person playing two roles, which is really incredible; But this is not that the author lacks wisdom, but that the horror of one person playing two roles is extremely attractive. " This statement also applies to the chaotic step itself. In addition to one person playing two roles and using code words, there are many tricks in the random steps, such as stealing letters, daydreaming and rings. He said that he would "subvert the well-known trap". "At that time, I was struggling with how to set another trap when subverting the trap." Readers often think that the truth will be revealed when the trap is broken, but this trap is broken, which is the beginning of another trap, so the plot is full of surprises and climax. What really made Luan Bu famous was not the early short stories, but the long mystery novels that became popular later. Luan Bu said in the introduction of Mystery Tales: "For the general readers in Britain and America, real detective stories are more popular than mystery stories; However, in Japan, real detective stories are limited to a few readers, while mystery stories have the vast majority of readers. Works such as Daydream, Man's Chair and Mirror Hell are not only welcomed by intellectuals, but also loved by ordinary readers compared with works such as Er Qian Vinegar Coin and Psychological Experiment. " The popular novels Chaos mainly include Daydream, Spider-Man, Vampire, Ghost on an Island, Blind Beast and so on. Make a beautiful woman's body into a plaster statue or a chrysanthemum doll "Spider-Man" or "vampire"; The situation of eating human flesh is described in The Blind Beast. Cry on a Island portrays the physically disabled and has a strong tyrannical color. Looking for beauty in terror can be said to be the central idea supporting these popular novels.