Edgwa Lapol (1894- 1965) was originally named Taro Hirai. A famous Japanese novelist, known as "the father of detective mystery novels", is the founder of Japanese mystery school.
He graduated from Waseda University on 19 16. 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.
His works, with complicated plots and intense suspense, are full of rare mystery and reasonable reasoning and judgment. They take absurd and fantastic romance as the main theme of their creation, and they can deeply grasp the psychology of the characters, and their reasoning is rigorous and impeccable! His detective Akichi Kogoro is a household name in Japan.
The common feature 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.
Main investment portfolio:
Two coins (1April 923)
One ticket (July 1923)
Terrible error (1923 65438+ February)
Two disabled people (June 1924)
Twins (1924 10 months)
Psychological test (1February, 925)
Black hand group (1March 925)
Red House (1April 925)
Love words on the abacus (1April 925)
Ghost (1May 925)
Diary (June 1925)
D slope murder (65438+July 0925)
The Death of Sleepwalker Hikotaro (1July, 925)
Daydream (1July 925)
Ring (65438+July 0925)
Pedestrian on the roof (1925 August)
One person does two jobs (1September, 925)
Suspicion (65438+September 0925-65438+ 10)
Human chair (1September, 925)
Kissing (1925 65438+ February)
Dwarf (1925 65438+ February-1926 March)
Crawling in the dark (1926 65438+ 10-1927 65438+ 10)
Dancing Dwarf (1926 65438+ October)
Poisonous weeds (192665438+1October)
Masked dancer (1926 65438+1October-February)
Kohantai Incident (192665438+1October-March)
Mars Canal (1April 926)
Ashe Debut (65438+July 0926)
Inhumane love (1926 10 month)
Barnola Falklands (192610-1927 April)
Mirror hell (1926 10 month)
Carousel (1926 10 month)
Yin beast (August1928-June 10)
Ghost of the Island (1929 65438+ 10-1930 February)
Spider-Man (1August 929-1June 930)
Insects (65438+September 0929-65438+1October)
Banshee (1930 65438+1October)
The consequences of curiosity (1930 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Magician (65438+July 0930-19365438+June 0)
Masked men in gold (65438+September 0930-193 1 year 1 month)
Vampires (65438+September 0930-19365438+March 0)
White-haired ghost (193 1 April-1932 April)
Dr. Muro's incredible crime (193 1 April)
Scenery of Hell (193 1 May-1932 April)
The King of Terror (193 1 June-1932 May)
Ghost (193 1 year1month)
Firerope (1April 932)
Evil spirits (193311-19341)
Worm (1933 65438+ February-1934 65438+ October)
Black lizard (1934 65438+ 10-1934 65438+February)
Man Leopard (65438+May 0934-65438+May 0935)
Pomegranate (65438+September 0934)
Shadow Kill (Ghost in Green) (1936 65438+ 10-1937 February)
Twenty Faces of Weirdo (1936 65438+ 10-1936 65438+February)
Darkroom (1936 65438+ February-1937 65438+ February)
Juvenile Detective Section (1937 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Ghost Tower (1937 65438+ 10-1938 April)
Demon coat of arms (September1937-1938 65438+1October)
Dr. Monster (1938 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Dark star (1939 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Big bullion (1939 65438+ 10-1940 February)
Master of Hell Funny (1939 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Ghost Tower (April 1939- March 1940)
Bronze Magic Man (1949 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Huya (1950 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Shore Breakthrough (65438+March 0950)
Terror triangle building (195 1 year 1 month-1February)
Transparent weirdo (19511-12)
Strange forty faces (195 1 year 1 month-1February)
Frankenstein (1953 65438+ 10-65438+February)
Goddess of metamorphosis (1953 10 months)
Weapons (1May 954)
Moon and handbag (1955 April)
Crossroads (19551October)
Search for a lesson and call the police (65438+April 0956)
A man who fell in love with his wife (1957 10 month)
Liar and Skyfighter (1959 1 1 month)