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"Alan Turing: The Mystery Solver" is a commemorative edition for the 100th anniversary of Turing's birth. This book is recognized by the world as the most authoritative biography of Turing. The film "The Imitation Game" adapted from it won the 2015 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Alan Turing is the originator of modern artificial intelligence. He laid the theoretical foundation of computers at the age of 24. During World War II, he deciphered codes for the Allied forces and made great contributions to ending the war. After the war, he pioneered the concept of artificial intelligence and did a lot of preliminary work. Because of the homosexuality incident, he was forced to take hormone injections, and later died after eating a poisoned apple. The author is a mathematician and a homosexual. He had personal experience of Turing's life, visited and investigated Turing's relatives and friends during his lifetime, and obtained a large amount of first-hand information for writing this book.