[Comprehensive Classics] Detective Mary

Contrary to Mary's expectation, the serialization of the second issue of "Beautiful Check" has received good feedback.

According to her thinking, although Philip Luther had never encountered a tit-for-tat enemy, Ms. Grace's departure was the first time he made a bad move and temporarily lost to the opponent.And this enemy is a lady, and readers will be somewhat dissatisfied.

But Mary looked through the reader feedback sent by the editor-in-chief of Hall, and found that the situation was much better than she imagined.

That's right, people who are particularly concerned about the villainous women and the gender of Mary Bennet have expressed their views as early as the first serialization of "The Check Lady".Those who objected either did not watch it, or accepted Ms. Grace's setting while complaining.I scolded once, so I don't need to repeat scolding a second time. In this way, the letters from readers after the second issue of serialization, on the contrary, praise more than negative.

Catherine opened one letter enthusiastically, and then opened another after reading it.After reading a few letters, I smiled and looked up: "Look, I'm not the only one who thinks so, everyone is concerned about whether Ms. Grace is Luther's future lover!"

Mary couldn't laugh or cry.

She personally opened several letters, and the content was the same: she either asked Ms. Grace if she fell in love with Luther in the end, or suggested with concern not to write Ms. Grace as a bad person, assuming there was something else hidden, a beautiful and intelligent blonde It's not a scammer, but someone used it, then Philip Luther can justifiably be with Ms. Grace.

"and this."

Lydia picked up a letter and read it carefully: ""King of Carnival" and "Serial Killer Chess Game" let us see a detective Philip Luther who sticks to the bottom line and has a sense of justice. Such an excellent person, Obviously deserves a better life. But Ms. Mary Bennet did not give Detective Luther the happiness he deserved. After the death of his loving wife, Detective Luther has been obsessed with it. This is not what Mrs. Luther wants to see at all. result. He needs a fresh start."

After reading this, Lydia paused, and Mary twitched the corner of her mouth and continued, "This new beginning, I'm afraid it's Ms. Grace."

"Since everyone wants to see Ms. Grace and Luther together," Catherine said expectantly, "how about letting them be together?"

"That won't work."

Lydia continued: "What do you know, Katie. The more they want to see something, the more they can't see it."

These words are similar to what the editor-in-chief Hall said. I didn't expect Lydia to be quite business-minded once she thought about it seriously.

"I really don't intend for Luther and Ms. Grace to be together," Mary concluded. The meaning of existence will change. What people want to see is the confrontational tension between the two characters, not a complete line. Think about it, Katie, if Ms. Grace married Luther, Will she still have such charm?"

In the past two years, Catherine has read many books, most of which are best-selling novels and magazines.When Mary mentioned this, she immediately reacted: "If she were Mrs. Luther, she would have to 'reform her evil'. And everyone likes Ms. Grace because she can always be one step ahead of Luther, and put law enforcement agencies, even The protagonist is teasing. If you marry Luther, you definitely can't do this."

Having said that, Catherine nodded in understanding.

"Then it's better not to be together," she announced. "I still find Ms. Grace, who is free and uncontrolled, the most attractive!"

Mary thought so too.

"Secondly," she continued, "not every pair of men and women who love each other has to develop feelings. Philip Luther and Ms. Grace each have independent lives, and they can live wonderfully without each other. To have love?"

"Three."

Catherine finally read letters from readers who held opposing opinions, and added solemnly: "There are still readers who don't want them to be together!"

The four girls of the Bennet family handed the letter to Mary. In the next link of reading the letter, although most people still expressed their desire to "be together!", there are also a small number of readers who do not want to see such a plot.

Their reasons can basically be summed up in three points. First of all, Ms. Grace is a villain, a beautiful fraudster, and she is still a fraudster.It’s fine if she’s a thief from the green forest, or robs the rich and helps the poor, but she really cheats money to squander and enjoy; secondly, in the first two stories, Philip Luther’s feelings for his dead wife have been exaggerated many times, which can be said to be With deep affection and pain.Not long after I got out of the pain, the timeline of the three stories is continuous. In less than two years, I found a new "true love". Wouldn't the previous affection become a joke?

Most of the readers who disagreed with this had pretty fonts - Mary ventured to guess that the readers who disagreed were mostly women.For example, the letter Catherine handed her was signed by a lady, and her words were outrageous.

“I have seen too many men who claimed to be as loving and as gluey as ever while they were alive, and then married and had children and started afresh after death,” the lady wrote, “although Miss Mary Bennet’s story has always had a part close to reality. , but there are also gorgeous and dreamy parts. I hope that Ms. Mary can think more about it, and be realistic in places that should be realistic, and in other places, let your characters leave a good image in people's hearts."

The implication is that the setting of continuing to marry a wife is too real in the world. Since it is a detective novel, there are many fictional elements in it, so there is no need to "close to reality" in this way.

"Readers who want to see the two together will continue to read because of the interaction between Detective Luther and Ms. Grace," Catherine concluded, "readers who don't want to see the two together will continue to read with satisfaction." It seems that it is better not to be together."

Except for the relationship between Philip Luther and Ms. Grace, the contents of other letters return more to the case itself.This made Mary very happy. Although "The King of Carnival" was her intentional "hype" to attract public opinion, it was not within Mary's plan to disclose her true identity afterwards.If necessary, she still hopes that readers will pay more attention to their own stories, rather than "Mary Bennet" itself.

In this way, the feedback after the second serialization is not as much as the first one, but Mary feels that, rather than asking and discussing herself, she still hopes that everyone will pay attention to the story itself.

In the package sent by Editor-in-Chief Hall, in addition to letters from readers, there are also several old newspapers from different newspapers and periodicals.

Mary picked up the newspaper and glanced at the date first: it was all at the beginning of the month, and... it turned out to be a newspaper related to the economy.Editor-in-Chief Hall sent them because they all published articles on the same topic.Mary glanced at it, then raised the corners of her mouth.

finally come!

The subject of these articles is none other than a discussion of the method of counterfeiting checks in "The Check Lady."

Mary has put a lot of effort into the way Miss Grace forged her checks.She asked the editor-in-chief Hall for help, and while checking a lot of information, she also consulted many people in the industry.Coupled with the knowledge of the future brought by Mary's time travel, the method of counterfeiting checks described in the end is a result that both the author and the editor are very satisfied with.

Mary just waited for a discussion in the industry.

She picked up the newspaper that Editor-in-Chief Hall specially put on top. Mary didn't know much about economics, but she knew that this newspaper was quite famous in the industry.Newspaper articles not only reported in detail Ms. Grace's method of making fake checks in "The Check Lady", the reporter even tried it out according to the details in the story.

The reporter does not have the golden fingers of the characters in the novel. He neither has Ms. Grace's skilled counterfeiting skills, nor has he specially purchased "professional" counterfeiting equipment.But even so, the result he got was decent, it could be seen that it was a fake, but it was also quite close to the real check - this is enough to prove that the cost method in the novel is feasible!

The newspaper was published at the beginning of the month, and Marie was far away in Paris, so there was a delay in her receiving the package from Editor-in-Chief Hall.Thinking about coming to London, this article may have caused quite a lot of social discussion.

This is exactly what Mary wanted to see.

If there is a discussion, it proves that the check can indeed be forged, and the bank must pay attention to it.Yu Gong, this is a good thing for the promotion of bank standardization; Yu privately, this time it is not to use other people's public opinion to gain attention for Philip Luther.The cases experienced by Detective Luther are also tenable in reality, doesn't it prove that his experience is very meaningful.

Satisfied, Mary looked through the package again, wanting to see if Mr. Bill Mayne had sent a letter back—the letter was sent just after arriving in France, and if there was a reply letter, it would be time to send it again now.

Unfortunately, this time Bill Mayne did not write back to Mary.

It’s also quite good, both parties have expressed their attitudes, and what should be said has been finished, and the rest of the topics will be discussed in the works and comments.

After opening the letters, the three Bennet sisters carefully put them back together.Starting from "Serial Killer Chess Game", Mary has received more and more letters from readers, and some bad letters were suppressed by the editor-in-chief Hall.She felt that if this went on like this, she could consider hiring a secretary next year to help her open and read letters and organize manuscripts.

Ever since she stepped out of Longbourne, Mary felt that life was getting busier.When she came to Paris, she still kept running between cases and creations non-stop, which made her feel very fulfilled.

Although busy, life is meaningful.

This idea became stronger when I saw Mr. Holmes the next day.

Irene had a performance that night, and the three Bennet sisters came to the Paris Opera House again, and Sherlock Holmes, who had disappeared all day, was also there.

It's just that the detective's focus isn't on Ms. Irene Adler's show.Taking advantage of the interval between performances and the audience walking around, Holmes walked into Irene's box from nowhere, frowning deeply, looking very unhappy.

"What's wrong?" Mary asked blankly.

"Sure enough, things will be more troublesome once we get back to Paris."

Holmes paced back and forth in the box: "Professor James Moriarty is too watertight. Today I inquired around the theater for a week, and the news I got is the same as when I came to Paris last time."

"no progress?"

"...There will definitely be progress," Sherlock Holmes said a little irritatedly. "I have no contacts in Paris, let alone any informants. I can only rely on my own relatives."

As for the chance of being close to Moriarty...

Mary said: "Have you been to the University of Paris, Sherlock?"

Holmes snorted: "Of course! But even in the name of studying, how can the students of the University of Paris tell strangers about their professor's itinerary?"

All in all, the unfamiliarity of the place seriously hindered the progress of Sherlock Holmes' investigation.

Far from hitting a snag, but inefficient.Sherlock Holmes is an extremely efficient person, and this situation is absolutely unacceptable to him.

Mary thought for a while: "If you want to say 'connection', I have it."

Holmes' footsteps stopped suddenly, and a bit of surprise appeared on his stern face: "You have?"

The author has something to say: Lao Fu: Where did you get your connections in Paris?

Mary: Heh, not only have connections, but also young brothers!