The popularity of Maijo Keisuke spreads more and more widely in the Tokyo mystery community. Many readers from other cities also started to travel to Tokyo in order to see Maijo Keisuke at the book signing.
But as the central figure in this matter, he is now in distress in the room of "Eternal Life Soup"...
On the second floor of "Longevity Bath", in Maijo Kyousuke's room.
Dozens of pieces of manuscript paper were crumpled into balls and thrown everywhere, as if they had been stolen.
Of course, Maijo Kyousuke's room was not stolen.
Because in Maijo Kyousuke's room, the most precious manuscript "Mr. Ultramore's Hands" is still on the bookshelf unharmed.
The reason why Maijo Keisuke is so distressed is all because of the short mystery novel "The Mystery of the Death Row Prisoner".
The reason is mainly because the original work of this story in the previous life is too dry in writing, but the logical reasoning in it is very hard-core. It is almost like the Japanese Quinn is alive!
Maijo Keisuke's idea is very simple, that is, to use his own writing style to re-embellish the story.
In this way, this already excellent story becomes more perfect and more readable.
But this kind of thing is easy to think about, but extremely difficult to do...
From the time Eryumi started watching "Summer of the Bird" yesterday morning, by eight o'clock this evening, Maijo Keisuke had polished more than a dozen pages in various sizes.
Although it has been polished very well and is more suitable for the mystery atmosphere of the 1980s, Maijo Kyousuke is still a little dissatisfied.
After all, I am very popular now, and as my popularity rises, I will inevitably attract the jealousy of my peers and relevant stakeholders. Even if there are many people who like me very much, there must be many people who hate me and want to suppress me!
In order to protect myself from the hard-earned heat.
Keisuke Maijo must polish the original work more so that the story of "The Mystery of the Death Row" not only has extremely high logical reasoning, but also the writing style must not allow anyone to find faults!
Thinking of this, Maijo Kyousuke looked at the ball of paper on the ground and sighed, then turned his attention to the manuscript of "Mr. Ultramore's Hands" on the bookshelf.
When he saw the manuscript in the safe, Maijo Kyousuke seemed to have some inspiration.
You must know that the story "The Hands of Mr. Ultramore" was voted by twelve first-class writers including Quinn, Carr, and Hayclough as the best short story in the history of mystery novels. The main reason is not reasoning, but It’s the suspenseful atmosphere and surprising motive!
If... I could use the suspenseful atmosphere in "The Hands of Mr. Ultramore", the poignant writing style of "A Platycodon Flower", and the logical structure of "The Mystery of the Death Row"...
Then it will definitely bring great shock to the Japanese literary world!
After all...under the impact of the "Qingzhang Curse", even Japan can only rely on those old seniors to support itself. The logic flow from the "King of Logic" Quinn has almost become extinct in the Japanese reasoning market. !
Once my article "The Mystery of the Death Row Prisoner" is successfully polished, it will definitely gain greater attention!
Thinking of this, Maijo Kyousuke immediately stood up and took down the safe containing the manuscript of "Mr. Ultramore's Hands".
I began to re-appreciate this short story, which Quinn praised as the best mystery novel in history. I hope to add some suspense flavor to "The Mystery of the Death Row" and make this logical short story shine even more brilliantly. !
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Early morning on January 20, 1980 (Showa 55).
After two days and one night, Maijo Keisuke finally polished the logical masterpiece "The Mystery of the Death Row", using the writing style of "A Platycodon Flower" and the suspenseful atmosphere of "Mr. Ultramore's Hands" Finish!
After all this was over, Maijo Kyousuke put the pen on the table and breathed a sigh of relief.
After carefully placing the manuscript of "Mr. Ultramore's Hands" back in the safe, Maijo Kyousuke lay on the tatami.
Today at six o'clock in the afternoon, my "Astrology Killing Magic" book signing will be held.
That's a physically demanding job, so you can't do it without a good rest...
Maijo Kyousuke thought this and slowly closed his eyes.
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While Maijo Kyousuke was busy, Eryu Meimei was not idle either.
Although the second issue of "Top Hat" magazine reached the deadline yesterday.
However, due to Maijo Keisuke's arrogant speech at the Edogawa Ranpo Climbing Award, the Kodansha magazine department receives sixty to eighty submissions from all over Japan every day!
Although this number of submissions may not sound like a lot, it adds up to a very astonishing number!
Because starting from the 12th to yesterday’s deadline, there were already eight days.
At this time, Kodansha Magazine Department has accumulated approximately 500 submissions!
You know, even for the Edogawa Ranpo Prize and the Japan Mystery Writers Association Prize, there are only less than 600 submissions in a year!
In other words, the just-released issue of "Top Hat" magazine is a complete hit!
In just eight days, it is already comparable to the number of submissions for other awards in a year!
However, this is also normal. Jiang Liumeili can understand the mentality of these contributors.
Some of the authors here are dissatisfied with the remarks made by Maijo Keisuke and want to kill Maijo Keisuke's spirit.
Another part of the author obviously wants to ride on the popularity of Maijo Kyousuke and "Top Hat" magazine.
Because the circulation of "Top Hat" magazine has reached an astonishing 800,000 copies!
If you can appear in a top hat magazine once, it is equivalent to gaining huge exposure at once!
At first, Jiang Liumei was a little proud of this kind of thing.
After all, editors from the magazine departments of other publishing houses come to ask for manuscripts from the writers they have.
As for my "Top Hat" magazine, I only need to sit in the office, and there will be a steady stream of manuscripts submitted from all over Japan.
But the problem now is that even if President Noma assigns more manpower to himself, there is no way to review all these manuscripts in just a few days!
Especially seeing that Maijo Keisuke's momentum is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people are submitting articles!
The speed of review by my editors cannot keep up with the speed of submission, which will only lead to more and more manuscripts being piled up.
If this continues, the people under his command will inevitably be exhausted.
Thinking of this, Jiang Liumei could only find President Noma and asked President Noma to publish such an announcement through the newspaper.
"Due to the huge number of submissions to "Top Hat" magazine, Kodansha's magazine department is unable to review them all, so the outstanding works that have not been published will be published in the third issue of "Top Hat" magazine. I hope that the submitted authors can understand... …”
Although this is just a very simple announcement, it has caused huge waves in the reasoning world!
Because as soon as this announcement was issued, it was discovered by Matsushima Gunma, the sales director of Takashimasha who has been paying attention to Kodansha's trends!
Before becoming the sales director of Baodaosha, Matsushima Gunma once worked in the public relations team of a well-known celebrity.
He is very experienced in confusing the masses and discrediting the other party.
I saw that Kodansha issued a notice that "Top Hat" magazine had a backlog of manuscripts and could not process them in time.
Matsushima Gunma immediately spent money to bribe a large number of contributors and began to smear Top Hat magazine, claiming that Kodansha did not hoard manuscripts at all.
It's just that "Top Hat" magazine was worried that the money-spinner of Maijo Keisuke would be destroyed by other writers, so it arranged all the excellent manuscripts for the third issue of "Top Hat" magazine!
As soon as this rumor was released, it immediately triggered heated discussions among many people...
