Chapter 635: Sherlock Holmes

The World Mystery Contest is coming!

When the news came out, the whole world was paying attention.

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

The organizer "Aurora Brain" soon announced the list of participants for this World Mystery Contest:

Olivia, Bastian, Gunn, Endo Ma, Manchester...

Fans who love reasoning are completely boiling!

Any name on these lists has tens of millions of fans. In these lists, even the recently popular teacher Theking seems a little inconspicuous, not to mention the Dragon Country mystery writer Dongfang Yu.

This is the battle of the kings of reasoning!

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

Not only RB, in fact, Dragon Country's "News Network" that night also made a special report on this matter for several minutes.

"Today, a world reasoning competition initiated by Aurora Brainland kicked off. It is said that this competition will be the most grand competition in the history of reasoning. Aurora Brainland has so far invited 50 reasoning writers from all over the world..."

"Among these 56 reasoning writers, there are a total of 10 contestants from Asia!"

"Our famous reasoning writer Dongfang Yu also received an invitation. After Dongfang Yu posted his invitation letter on Weibo, countless netizens offered their blessings. Not long ago, Endo Ma, who had a literary battle with Dongfang Yu, was also invited to participate in this competition. What kind of sparks will their reunion create..."

Dongfang Yu was comforted by the news broadcast of his motherland.

It is unknown how far this mysterious power from the East can help Dongfang Yu.

But what is certain is that Dongfang Yu, who is qualified to participate in the World Reasoning Competition, has become the hope in the hearts of many people. Everyone's blessings to Dongfang Yu are real. After all, Longguo has never had a reasoning writer shine in the world.

...

Luoyang ignored the noise from the outside world.

He is writing a novel at the moment, and the name of this novel is "The Complete Detective Cases of Sherlock Holmes".

Many people are familiar with this story. To be more precise, this work has long been familiar to mystery lovers in the previous life.

This "The Complete Detective Cases of Sherlock Holmes" is a long detective novel written by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The protagonist is Sherlock Holmes. There are 4 long novels and 56 short stories. The first story is called "A Study in Scarlet".

This book opened up the "golden age" of the history of detective novels!

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

Since the 1930s, countries around the world have successively published the "Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", which has been translated into 57 languages ​​for more than 100 years and has become popular all over the world. The protagonist Sherlock Holmes is a private detective who is smart, brave, hates evil, and has a high sense of responsibility and mission. It is a household name. Sherlock Holmes has become the best synonym for the world's famous detective and a hero admired by everyone. At the same time, he is also one of the most vivid and successful characters in British novels.

Conan Doyle, the author, won the reputation of "the father of British detective novels" because of this work.

Therefore, this is a must-read book for mystery novel lovers. If you haven't read "Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", you are even embarrassed to say that you like mystery novels. To some extent, this statement is not an exaggeration, because the influence of this novel has surpassed the reasoning itself!

And Luoyang is now writing the first story of "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 Collection". It is even a bit tragic that when Conan just finished writing "A Study in Scarlet", no publisher was willing to publish this book!

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

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

If this is not intuitive enough, then put it another way, "A Study in Scarlet" is the beginning of Sherlock Holmes, and the remuneration at that time was about more than 230 yuan...

All great beginnings are actually just mediocrity.

And the main reason why this work called "A Study in Scarlet" later became a well-known one in the Sherlock Holmes series is that it is Sherlock Holmes' first case.

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

After deciding to use "A Study in Scarlet" as the first entry, Luoyang began to write furiously.

[After I had taken my degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of London in 1878, I went to Netley to study the required courses for military surgeons. After I had completed my studies there, I was immediately attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as assistant surgeon, which was then stationed in India.

When I landed in Bombay, I heard that the unit I belonged to had passed through the mountain pass and advanced deep into the enemy's territory. Despite this, I followed a group of officers who had fallen behind like me and caught up with them and arrived safely in Kandahar. There I found my regiment and immediately took up my new duties...】

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

Most of the stories in this novel are narrated from the perspective of Holmes' friends, only two are narrated by Holmes himself and two are written from a third-person perspective.

Moreover, because the history of this world is somewhat different from that of the previous life, Luoyang had to modify some background elements, but 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 in "The Detective Works of Sherlock Holmes", it itself has excellent quality, so there is still no pressure to pass the first round of this world reasoning competition.

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

According to Lu Yuer's introduction, in addition to being proficient in Japanese, her English level is also very good, 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.