Contents of "The Detective's Rules":
The core of mystery novels lies in solving puzzles. The essence of solving puzzles lies in logic, and the object of logic lies in trickery. Countless masters who have emerged so far have been thinking about one question throughout their lives: How to write an eternal conspiracy? Locked room mysteries, alibi, narrative tricks, nursery rhyme murders, death codes, Blizzard Mountain Villa, missing weapons... All reasoning models have been written down, what is left in the reasoning world? Does it really have to be confusing, twisty, and whimsical to make people feel exciting and interesting? A work in which Keigo Higashino systematically "researches" conspiracies, a work that expands the territory of mystery novels, sorting out various possibilities and revealing all kinds of impossibilities, the breadth of conspiracies and the depth of surprises are all eye-popping...
