Unknowingly, Mitate Shinsame had moved from the bookshelf to sitting on a chair next to the bar.
Sakamoto glanced at Mitate Shinsame, and said to himself that Mitate seemed to like this book written by the newcomer, and maybe he should find time to read it later.
"The Devotion of Suspect
This is not a conventional mystery novel. The protagonist has changed from a detective in the past to a criminal.
In this case, from the beginning, the reader knows who the murderer is.
Mystery novels are often heavy on foreshadowing and suspense, and the author usually hides clues about the murderer to keep readers guessing.
The charm of detective novels is that readers can follow the story to deduce who the murderer is.
This book went in the opposite direction and told the readers the truth from the beginning. However, Mitate Arinyu did not lose interest because of this. Although he knew the "truth", the overt and covert fight between the protagonist and the police made him feel excited.
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In fact, it is not accurate to say that readers know the "truth" from the beginning. For example, at the beginning, Mitate Shinsame only knew that Ishigami helped the mother and daughter create alibi.
As for how this alibi was created, he only found out later.
When the answer to the mystery was revealed, Mitate Shinyu was stunned.
"Why didn't I expect that it would be like this?"
To create alibi, in the eyes of ordinary people, you must forge some proof of alibi. In some classic detective novels, many methods of forging alibi are also mentioned. Mitate Shinsame has seen one before, and the murderer is in
He placed a dummy in his room, and then used a light to shine the dummy on the window to make others think he was in the room.
However, most of the means of forging alibi are prepared in advance. If you want to create alibi after the incident, you may have to collude with others. However, the alibi created by Shi Shen for the mother and daughter did not use collusion at all.
This kind of thing is the real deal.
Mitate Shinsame would never have thought that Shi Shen had never thought of forging alibi. What he forged was the time of the crime.
He pushed back the time of the crime, which caused the police to go in the wrong direction from the beginning.
Modern forensic science is advanced, and it is not easy to fake the time of death. But Ishigami took a different approach and started directly from the identity of the victim. The body found by the police on the river bank was not Shinji Togashi's at all, but a wanderer that no one paid attention to.
Ishigami destroyed the identity information of the corpse, but left loopholes such as the bicycle and the hotel, just to mislead the police and make them think that the corpse on the river bank belonged to Shinji Togashi.
"What a meticulous crime." Mitate Shinsame sighed, and then shook his head, "What a pity."
Yes, it's a pity. It's a pity that the policeman investigating the case this time is not an ordinary person, but Ishigami's old friend Manabu Yukawa. He has super reasoning ability and extremely sharp insight.
So later Shi Shen had to change his strategy, devote himself perfectly, and turn himself into a criminal to replace Zheng Zhen's murderers, Jingzi and his daughter.
Closing the book, Mitate Shinsame looked at the author's name on the cover.
"Chibafuji is such an amazing author. It's hard to imagine that he is a newcomer."
It has been many years since Mitate Shinyu has read such an excellent suspense mystery novel in Neon.
Sakamoto looked at his appearance and said with interest, "Hey, Mitsuru, the book is so good? Did it make you forget to eat dinner?"
Mitate Shinyu turned around, looked at the already dark sky outside, covered his stomach and said, "I'm really hungry, this book is very good, but I have to go to eat now, please pay me the bill.
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He put the book on the cashier, and Sakamoto Shinichi smiled and said, "This is my trial copy."
"Just open another one." Mitate Shinsame smiled, "Sakamoto, I suggest you buy a few more copies. I have a hunch that its sales will be very good."
"Okay, I'll listen to you. The Master's premonitions have never been missed."
After Mitate Shinsame left, Sakamoto Shinichi curiously walked to the bookshelf and picked up the last book, "The Devotion of Suspect X".
"Is it really beautiful?" He looked outside the store again and muttered, "It's almost time to close."
Then he opened the last book "The Devotion of Suspect X" and opened it.
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After getting home from dinner, Mitate Shinsame was about to go to the forum to recommend the new book he just saw today to netizens. However, he was surprised to find that there were already several discussion posts about "Mr. Suspect X" in the forum.
, there are quite a few comments below.
[I discovered a good author today called Chiba Teng. Has anyone heard of it? 】
[I just finished watching "The Devotion of Suspect X". It's really good. I highly recommend everyone to watch it. 】
[There hasn’t been such a new author in many years.]
Looking at the posts in the forum, Mitate Arinyu was surprised and relieved at the same time. It seems that Neon readers are still saved, at least they can still distinguish good works.
But what Yushou Xinyu doesn't know is that more than half of the posts in the forum are from the trolls of Chen Qing's faction.
The purpose of these trolls is to quickly push "The Devotion of Suspect
The next day, "The Devotion of Suspect X" sold 12,000 copies on its first day.
For a new book written by a newcomer, this is a very impressive result, but this result is somewhat flawed because at least one-third of it was bought back by someone sent by Chen Qing.
In line with this wave of sales, some news reports about this book also appeared in Neon newspapers, saying that this book is a little dark horse in October, with good reputation, and maybe the sales volume will continue.
Keep rising.
Although this wave of marketing is not as violent as the flood, it is enough for "The Devotion of Suspect X".
What this book needs now is just a see-saw. With the see-saw, this book's own strength can completely make a difference.
Sure enough, after this wave of marketing, many Neon people became interested and began to pay attention to this book called "The Devotion of Suspect X".
What happened later became simple. As more and more people watched it, the reputation became better and better, and the reputation became more and more famous. A virtuous circle was created.
In less than three days, the single-day sales of "The Devotion of Suspect X" exceeded 50,000 copies.
At this time, an interesting thing happened.
Mr. Zuo Kusaka, a famous neon historian, highly praised the book "The Devotion of Suspect X".