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The World Mystery Contest is coming!

When the news came out, the whole world paid attention.

This is an unprecedented mystery feast, enough to make any mystery novel fan excited and unable to sleep for several days.

The organizer "Aurora Brain" soon announced the list of participants for this world reasoning competition:

Olivia, Bastian, Gunn, Endoma, Manchester…

Fans who love reasoning are completely excited!

Any name on these lists has tens of millions of fans. Among these lists, even the recently popular teacher Theking seems a bit inconspicuous, let alone Dragon Kingdom mystery writer Dongfang Yu. .

This is the battle of the kings of reasoning!

Even when Luoyang was painting for customers on the streets of RB, he often heard passers-by discussing the reasoning contest.

It's not just RB. In fact, Long Guo's "News Network" that night also made a special report on this matter that lasted several minutes.

"Today, a world reasoning competition initiated by "Aurora Brain" kicked off. It is said that this competition will be the most grand competition in the history of reasoning. "Aurora Brain" has so far spread to the world. Fifty mystery writers from within have sent out invitations..."

"Among these fifty-six mystery writers, a total of ten contestants are from Asia!"

"Teacher Dongfang Yu, a famous mystery writer in my country, also received the invitation. After Teacher Dongfang Yu posted his invitation letter on Weibo, countless netizens sent their blessings. Not long ago, he had a literary fight with Teacher Dongfang Yu. Mr. Endouma was also invited to participate in this competition. What kind of sparks will they create when they meet again..."

Dongfang Yu was sucked by the motherland's news network.

I don’t know how far this mysterious power from the East can help Dongfang Yu go.

But what is certain is that Dongfang Yu, who is qualified to participate in the World Mystery Competition, has become the hope in many people's hearts. Everyone's blessings for Dongfang Yu are genuine. After all, there has never been a mystery writer in the Dragon Kingdom. Shine light around the world.

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Luoyang ignored the noise from the outside world.

He is currently writing a novel, and the name of this novel is "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes".

Many people are not unfamiliar with this story. To be more precise, this work has long been familiar to mystery lovers in previous lives.

"The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" is a full-length detective novel created by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The protagonist is named Sherlock Holmes. There are 4 novels and 56 short stories in total. The first story is called "Blood". A Study of Words".

This book ushered in the "golden age" of detective fiction history!

It is the most highly regarded masterpiece of detective novels in the history of world literature, and is called the "Bible" of mystery novels by mystery fans.

Since the 1930s, "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" has been published in various countries around the world. Over the past 100 years, it has been translated into 57 languages ​​and has become popular all over the world. Its protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, is a witty and brave private detective who hates evil and has a high sense of responsibility and mission. It can be said that Sherlock Holmes is a household name and has become the best synonym for the world's famous detective and a hero worshiped by everyone. At the same time, he is also one of the most vivid and successful characters in British novels.

Conan Doyle, the author, is known as the "Father of British Detective Novels" because of this work.

Therefore, this is a must-read book for fans of mystery novels. I have never read "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" and I am even embarrassed to say that I like mystery novels. To a certain extent, this sentence is not an exaggeration, because this book The influence of the novel has surpassed the reasoning itself!

What Luoyang is writing now is the first story in "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", "A Study in Scarlet".

In fact, "A Study in Scarlet" is not particularly outstanding compared to the entire "Sherlock Holmes". What is even a bit tragic is that when Conan first wrote "A Study in Scarlet", no publisher was willing to publish it. This book!

Even if a publisher later agreed to publish it, they only paid £25.

Yes, a work that later became popular all over the world and was known as the Bible of Mysteries. Its first story only sold for 25 pounds.

If this is not intuitive enough, then to put it another way, "A Study in Scarlet" was the beginning of Sherlock Holmes, and the remuneration at that time was about two hundred and thirty yuan...

All great beginnings turn out to be mediocre.

The main reason why this work called "A Study in Scarlet" later became a relatively famous one in the Sherlock Holmes series is because it was Sherlock Holmes' first case.

In "A Study in Scarlet", the author introduces the protagonists Holmes and Watson and all the situations in Baker Street to the readers for the first time.

After deciding to take "A Study of Letters in Scarlet" as the first entry, Luoyang began to write vigorously.

[After I received my doctorate in medicine from the University of London in 1878, I went to Netley to take the required courses for military medicine. Immediately after completing my course there I was attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as assistant surgeon. The regiment was then stationed in India.

When I landed at Bombay, I heard that the corps to which I belonged had passed through the passes and was advancing deep into enemy territory. Nevertheless, I caught up with a group of officers who had also fallen behind like me, and reached Kandahar safely. I found my regiment there and immediately assumed my new duties...]

The perspective is very interesting, because the perspective of "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" is based on a man named Watson.

Most of the stories in this novel are narrated from the perspective of Holmes' friends. Only two stories are narrated by Holmes himself and two stories are written from the third-person point of view.

Moreover, because the history of this world is somewhat different from the previous life, Luoyang had to modify some background elements. Fortunately, these modifications did not affect the interest of the story itself.

In addition, he believes that even if "A Study in Scarlet" is not the most outstanding one among "Sherlock Holmes", it still has excellent quality, so there is still no pressure to pass the first round of this world mystery competition. of.

As for translation, Luoyang plans to continue asking Lu Yuer for help.

According to Lu Yuer's introduction, in addition to being proficient in Japanese, her English proficiency is not bad at all, so Luoyang plans to let Lu Yuer try to translate Sherlock Holmes. If possible, he even wants to directly hire Lu Yuer as his full-time translator.