Chapter 311 Printing Speed ??That Can't Keep Up (2/3)
"Silent Witness" and "Tragedy on the Nile" are two of Zhang Zhong's favorite books in the Poirot series.
The main plot of "Silent Witness" revolves around the death and will of the elderly and wealthy Emily Arundel.
Two weeks before her death, Emily Arundel accidentally fell down the stairs. Relatives and servants said it was caused by the ball thrown by the puppy Bob. But after thinking about it, Emily felt something fishy, so she wrote to the famous detective Poirot.
received a letter.
It was two months after Poirot received the letter. The letter was nothing strange and did not have any substantive content. Emily just wanted to entrust Poirot to do some private investigation for her.
But the date of this letter aroused Poirot's great interest. The date of the letter was April 17, but the date of sending the letter was June.
It took two months before this letter was sent.
This incident made Poirot feel puzzling and curious. He and his assistant Hasting immediately went to Beixin Town to meet with the client to find out.
However, when the two of them drove more than an hour from London to the small town villa, they unexpectedly learned that the client Emily had been dead for more than a month.
Emily's villa has already changed hands and is for sale.
What is strange is that Amy did not leave her inheritance to her relatives, but to her personal maid Miss Lawson. And Miss Lawson had only served Emily for more than a year.
The relationship with a maid whom I have only known for more than a year is so good that I left her an inheritance. This is a bit strange no matter how you look at it.
Although the client was dead, Poirot and his assistant decided to launch an investigation, pretending to have multiple identities and launched a series of interviews and investigations around relevant personnel.
The content of another book "Tragedy on the Nile" is that Miss Linnet, who has a huge fortune, got married to her friend Jacqueline's lover Simon, and they took a luxury cruise ship sailing from England to the Nile River in Egypt for their honeymoon.
This yacht carries rich people and nobles from all over the world.
Lynette was shot in the head and died, which is the beginning of the story. When she died, her pearl necklace worth fifty thousand pounds disappeared.
From the very beginning, people could tell that this was a murder case. In fact, it was also true. Linette became a dead soul precisely because of her wealth.
Agatha's novels are traditional detective novels, and they always arrange the story with an ending that seems unexpected.
"Tragedy on the Nile" is like this, and "Silent Witness" is also like this, but the difference is that when the ending of "Tragedy on the Nile" came out, although the plot arrangement of the novel did not reveal too many flaws, Zhang
Zhong didn't feel too surprised, because he had already noticed it.
This is certainly not Agatha's mistake, but all cases are about motives and conditions. Without these two things, it would not be called a detective novel.
Since we are talking about motives and conditions, Linette's husband Simon is inseparable from the relationship. No matter how clever their plan is, it cannot escape the sight of the detective and readers.
Zhang Zhong looked at the last book "The Ordinary World" and did not read it. Instead, he put it aside and concentrated on typing out the two detective novels first.
There were only two books in the Poirot series before, and there is a group of Poirot fans who are urging Zhang Zhong to continue writing Poirot every day.
Looking through the book review sections of all Zhang Zhong’s books online, you can almost see this kind of comments, and there are many people who support it.
Now it's good, two books came at once, which is enough for them to read.
Zhang Zhong also wanted to get these two books out as soon as possible to relieve their anxiety.
Of course, in addition to this, Zhang Zhong himself also wants to produce the Poirot series as soon as possible. He has always wanted to get the Poirot series of books. If he doesn't get it again, he will even start to do it himself.
Zhang Zhong has read almost all of Agatha's books, and he can probably write this, but what he writes will definitely be different from what Agatha writes.
Although his style is now changeable, the same series of detective novels has too many changes in style, which is difficult to accept.
Although the previous two books have initially sketched out the image of Poirot, it is definitely not enough. If you want to make the Poirot series more comprehensive, you will definitely need more cases.
The two books he has now are ready to be put on the shelves in October and November, or November and December.
It only took four days for Zhang Zhong to record these two books and modify the contents that were somewhat inconsistent with the world.
After finishing it, he first sent "Silent Witness" to Chen Qing.
There were two versions he sent to Chen Qing, both English and Chinese.
Seeing Zhang Zhong sent another book, Chen Qing felt complicated.
The more business the company has, the happier he, the general manager, will be. However, Chen Qing gradually discovered that the size of their company could no longer keep up with Zhang Zhong's pace of publishing books.
Before, he was still thinking that the affairs that one author, Zhang Zhong, might have to deal with could be comparable to a dozen other authors, but now it seems that the usual dozen authors are probably not as good as him alone.
Because Zhang Zhong is not only publishing books very quickly, but he also has a lot of copyright issues related to his books.
In the recent period, "After School" has not been finished yet, and the physical publishing work of "I, Robot" is about to begin. Now there are two more books, "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "Silent Witness".
Not to mention, there are still a lot of copyright matters to deal with.
The company needed to expand its scale, and Chen Qing had this idea.
Of course, the one who is most troubled is not Chen Qing, but Lin Lin, because their existing printing factory can no longer keep up.
In fact, they have been unable to keep up for a long time, but they have cooperated with other printing factories before.
If things continue like this, Lin Lin may consider opening a branch in Jinling City.
There are more printing plants over there and they are larger in scale.
It sounds scary that one publishing house can overwhelm printing companies in a city, but it is true.
The domestic sales of Zhang Zhong's books are often in the millions. This is only the first year. Although the sales will slow down in the future, additional printing will still be required every once in a while. In the end, the sales volume of a single book may reach thousands.
Ten thousand.
Ten million books would take an ordinary printing house at least half a year to print.
Several printing plants must start operations together to keep up with sales.
Now that Zhang Zhong is publishing books faster, Jiangyang's printing factory can't keep up.
Lin Lin also thought about opening a few more printing plants with his own capital, but this would be risky. After all, no one is sure whether Zhang Zhong will still be so efficient in the future. If Zhang Zhong stops publishing books in the future, then