The core trick is not only about the modus operandi, but also the alibi (such as my entry "Crime is Nowhere to Escape") and sometimes the real motive of the murderer (such as Keigo Higashino's work "Malice"). After all, in my opinion, the tactics or purposes that criminals can most confuse readers in the process of committing crimes are the core tactics. Good reasoning works should focus on the core tricks, and many novels simply reflect the reasoning thinking of the case handlers.
I contributed to the puzzle section of Kill the Exclamation Point, and so far five articles have been published, except the first one. There is not necessarily a core trick in the puzzle, and sometimes the core content is a demonstration of the investigator's reasoning thinking, as I said above.
But mystery novels are different from mystery novels. Many times, the core content of mystery novels can be summarized by puzzles, and the charm of mystery novels lies in the foreshadowing of the plot and the step-by-step peeling of cocoons, in which people substitute.
Here, I take an article as an example to analyze it for everyone. Because it involves spoilers, if you haven't read the original, please walk around first, have a look, and then come back to see it, which is also conducive to improvement. I'm also afraid that other people's works are wrong, so I'll talk about my introduction. Sin is inevitable.
In One Crime Can't Escape, the core trick I use is the criminal's alibi, and the secret room is also the trick to assist the alibi. When I first conceived this article, I thought of the method of alibi, using the method of moving the body and the identification of the time of death to make an alibi. At this time, if I use this trick directly, although the reasoning difficulty is not low, readers with more flexible thinking will not take too many detours. In order to mislead readers, I created a relatively simple secret room. It is not difficult for powerful readers to crack this secret room, but it is my purpose to let readers crack the secret room. At this time, it is difficult for smart readers to realize my core tricks without breaking previous guesses or thinking backwards many times.
This is the trap I set on the core trick. Breaking the chamber of secrets proves that the murderer was at the scene, but the core trick is that the murderer is not at the scene.
This trap can be realized by the murderer and used to mislead the police. Many people's tricks in mystery novels are just to mislead readers or just to mislead the police. The former is stupid (except narrative tactics), and the latter can be understood as lack of skill. The key to successful reasoning is to set traps for readers while misleading the investigators in the book. At this point, "The Dedication of Suspect X" and "Malicious" can be recommended as masterpieces for everyone to see.
Next, let's talk about a wonderful idea of thinking and scheming between a murderer and a case solver: the murderer, as a planner, will hide the truth when setting up the game, and often set misleading investigation routes to interfere with the case solver. At this time, the case handler can see through it from the beginning and then play along, which is generally used when both parties have special purposes. Investigators may also take a misleading route. Later, because of the murderer's mistake or the unintentional reminder and assistance of the people around him, he returned to the road to the truth. This writing is very common in such crimes and serial murders.
Of course, the above writing is only a branch of a huge mystery novel, and it cannot summarize all mystery novels.
Setting misleading items for core tricks is a common means to confuse exploration and readers. Writing is also an interesting means, but this misleading content must be reasonable and useful to the police. If the just-started reasoning writer is afraid that some places are not well controlled, he will not confuse the readers or confuse them, and he can deal with them in clever ways, such as:
The forensic doctor handed the autopsy report to the investigator, and the investigator suddenly realized. ) and then enter the chapter on solving crimes.
This is a clever way to write.
And the clever use of reminders from people around you must conform to the settings you set for this person, so that it will not be too abrupt. In "An Inevitable Crime", I used my sister's reminder to crack the secret room. My sister left a foreshadowing in the first part, so that readers would not feel too abrupt. Sudden plots are easy for readers to play and seriously affect the reading experience. Novices who write mystery novels must pay attention to the setting of foreshadowing.
The help of those around us must get to the heart of the tricks that plague the crime solvers. Most of the crime-solving plots in the TV series "The Grinch" and the reminder that "seemingly geometry is actually algebra" in "The Dedication of Suspect X" are appropriate. There are also many plots in Detective Conan, which have great influence in China. If you are not familiar with it, you can see more similar plots.
The last point is the plot direction. Although this is the topic of the core trick, I have to mention the plot. The plot must have a beginning and an end. Please remember:
A successful move can support reasoning, but it can't support mystery novels.
At the end of the article, send a sentence to the newcomers who write mystery novels:
Don't always want to take shortcuts, accumulate leisurely, and use action code words that read and write more.