The Two Detectives of the Ends of the Earth take you on a journey to solve the never-before-revealed folk mysteries from 300 years of Great Song history. A mysterious, cold fortune-teller and an uneducated playboy. An adventure filled with bizarre cases involving drowned female corpses, nursery rhymes from deserted villages, labyrinthine tombs, and fish corpses with human bones… Pursuing murderers across ten thousand miles, with 23 twists, 64 unsolved cases, and 78 kinds of schemes… From the capital to the Western Regions, across 1.08 million kilometers: 11 identities, including emperors, officials, generals, ministers, merchants, farmers, soldiers, heroes, bandits, courtesans, and monks; 64 major and minor unsolved cases, including drowned female corpses, nursery rhymes from deserted villages, labyrinthine tombs, and fish corpses with human bones; more than 78 deduction tricks, including nursery-rhyme murders, impossible crimes, narrative deception, and the isolated mountain villa in a blizzard… A masterpiece of ancient-style mystery and deduction, it spread widely across Chinese websites such as Tieba and forums as soon as it was published, with countless top students staying up late to read it. Strongly recommended by Zhou Haohui, author of The Darker; Ye Wenbiao, author of The Code of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival; Zijin Chen, author of The Bad Kids; Cece Qinghan, author of The Hairpin Files; and Gang Xueyin, author of Criminal Psychology Archives! The print, ebook, and audiobook editions are all selling phenomenally across every platform! Sherlock Holmes of ancient China! Arsene Lupin of the Northern Song! Open this book and let two passionate young men show you the contests of wit and the bonds of life and death behind these folk mysteries!
