Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

American writer and literary critic. Born into a family of actors. Advocate "art for art's sake" and promote aestheticism and mysticism. He was most influenced by the decadent school of bourgeois literature in Western Europe, especially France. His novels include "Weird Tales", "The Black Cat", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", etc. His papers include "Philosophy of Writing" and "Principles of Poetry". "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" published in 1841 is recognized as the earliest detective novel. The content is about a murder in a secret room, and the murderer is actually an orangutan. "The Mysterious Case of Marie Roger" published in 1842, solved the case purely in the form of reasoning. Five other novels, such as "The Golden Scarab", "You Are the Murderer" and "The Stolen Letter", have successfully created five modes of mystery novels, (Secret Room Murder, Easy Chair Pure Mystery Detective, Code Cracking Trick, Detective That is, the murderer and psychological crime solving, human blind spots) created the artistic model of amateur detective Auguste Dupin. Edgar Allan Poe is known as the "originator of detective fiction." The novel style is weird and bizarre, full of horror atmosphere.

Ellery Queen

The pen name of the American writers Frederick Darnay and Manfrid Lee. His work "The Mystery of the Greek Coffin" won the 1961 Edgar Allan Poe Award. The shaped Ellery Queen became a great detective in the history of world detective novels. The two collaborated in 1929 and wrote more than 50 works together, becoming an important genre in the history of European and American detective novels. Representative works include "The Mystery of the Roman Hat" (1929), "The Mystery of the French Powder" (1930), "The Mystery of the Dutch Shoes" (1931), and "The Mystery of the Greek Coffin" (1932). The work's reasoning is rigorous and the plot is compact. Its influence has transcended countries such as Britain and the United States, and there are translations of his works all over the world.

Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

An outstanding British detective novelist and playwright. He graduated from Edinburgh Medical University and has been practicing medicine for more than 10 years. His income is barely enough to sustain his life. Later, he specialized in writing detective novels. "A Study of Letters in Scarlet" was published after several rejections, and became world-famous for "Four Signatures". In 1891, he gave up medicine to pursue literature and became a detective novelist. Representative works include "A Scandal in Bosnia", "The Red-Haired Club", "Five Oranges", etc. In 1894, he decided to stop writing detective novels and let Holmes die in a torrent in "The Final Case". Unexpectedly, readers were outraged and protested. Conan Doyle had no choice but to let Sherlock Holmes escape from death in "The Empty House" and wrote detective novels such as "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Return", and "The Uncanny Valley". The creation of Sherlock Holmes has become a household name around the world. Holmes' office has also become a tourist attraction. The work's logical reasoning is fascinating, the structure is ups and downs, the characters are vivid, and it touches on the social reality of Britain at that time. Regarding his artistic achievements, the famous British novelist Somerset Maugham once said: "Compared with "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" written by Conan Doyle, no detective novel has ever enjoyed such a great reputation." Conan Doyle was called " The father of British detective fiction" and became one of the world's best-selling authors.

Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941)

French novelist. Born in Lyon, France. He admired Flaubert and Maupassant and was influenced by them to embark on the literary path. Published his debut novel "A Girl" in 1891. Later, influenced by the French detective novelist Emile Gaborio, he got involved in detective themes. In 1907, he wrote the first robber detective novel with Arsene Lupin as the protagonist. Since then, it has become an instant success and has published more than 50 detective novels. Representative works include "Arsen Lupin in Prison", "The Romance of Rogue", "Arsen Luopin vs. Sherlock Holmes", "Crystal Cork", "Coffin Island", "House of Mystery", etc. The novel shows all living beings in French society in the 20th century. Yassen Lupin also became a sensational French national hero.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

An outstanding British detective novelist. He lost his father at an early age. He did not go to college. He was taught by his mother to read literary works and was deeply influenced by Dickens' novels. When he was 16 years old, he started writing detective novels. The first one was "The Mysterious Case in the Villa", but the publisher had no interest in it.

After continuous writing practice, he finally wrote famous detective novels such as "Tragedy on the Nile" and "Murder on the Orient Express", which shaped Poirot's artistic model. During his 55 years of working on detective novels, he has written more than 60 detective novels and dozens of detective-themed scripts. Among them, the play "Mousetrap" has set a record of 30 years of continuous performance on the British stage. Detective novels have a high degree of literary quality. They inherit Conan Doyle's expertise in arranging complicated and confusing layouts, coupled with her research on medicine, and solve crimes from the perspectives of psychology and medicine. It is a masterpiece. The writing is vivid and engaging. French President Charles de Gaulle was once a "fan of Christie's novels." The Queen of England awarded Agatha Christie a fellow of the British Literature Society. His works have been translated into 103 languages, and the total number of foreign language translations exceeds that of Shakespeare. In the 1980s, he was ranked first among the best-selling authors in the world.

Georges Simenon (1903-1977)

A famous Belgian novelist. Born in Liège. Dropped out of school in 1918. In 1919, he joined Liège Daily News as a reporter. At the age of 16, he published his debut novel "On the Arch Bridge", which attracted attention. From then on, he devoted himself to literary creation. He has written more than 300 works, most of which are detective novels, such as "Thirteen Mysteries", "Thirteen Criminals" and a series of novels with Maigret as the detective. The writing speed is very fast, with an average of one piece per month. The works are rigorously conceived, the writing style is simple, the plot is tense, and the little characters in the writing are sympathetic. The novel has been translated into dozens of languages ??and published in countries around the world. Inspector Maigret has become an artistic example in the history of world literature. In 1952, he was elected as an academician of the Royal Academy of Letters of Belgium. He retired from the literary world in 1972 and wrote an autobiography "An Ordinary Man".