[Comprehensive Classics] Detective Mary

Mr. Sherlock Holmes' remonstrance hit the nail on the head, and it can be said that it directly spoke to Mary's heart.

Relying on two sisters and brother-in-law is by no means a long-term solution. If you want to change your life, you must either get married or be financially independent. It is very simple.

Mary would never be willing to ask her to be a noble lady like Michong for a modern person.But limited by the times, as a woman, Mary can do very few things.

She has been thinking about how she can become financially independent.

The nineteenth century was at the time of the rise of capitalism. If Mary had such a skill, she would barely have a way out even though there were many difficulties.

For example, cutting clothes, with the experience of the 21st century, Mary can use modern design to open a millinery shop, and maybe she will be famous earlier than Ms. Chanel decades later.

But Mary's girl was in a mess, and she had no patience to sit down and sew.

Another example is that you can be good at cooking and cakes. You can save up your savings, or use a loan to open a small shop, and you can achieve enough food and clothing after a while.

But Mary was a single dog who relied on takeaways to survive before she traveled, and she also worked as a maid after time travel, and she was not at that level.

No matter how bad it is, even if Mary is proficient in economic knowledge, makes financial investments, or borrows bonds to make a fortune, and becomes a big capitalist, who will care whether she will marry or not when she becomes rich and wealthy?

It's just that Mary's understanding of the current economy is limited to theory, and it's just superficial. It's fine on paper, but it's not realistic in practice.More realistically, investment management is not a problem, the problem is where does she get the principal.

As the heroine of a fan fiction, Mary felt that she was too useless.

After thinking about it, the only thing she can do, which is relatively feasible, is to follow the example of female writers such as Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and the Bronte sisters, write and write, and submit for publication.

After all, there are too few things she can do, and writing is one of the more decent and feasible options.Mary has nothing else, after all, she has more than a hundred years of knowledge than people of this era.

Especially after Mr. Holmes left, Mary suddenly lost interest in the whole Netherfield Manor.

She didn't like embroidery, and she didn't like bridge, and it was inappropriate for her to hide in someone's study when everyone was in the living room.Therefore, in the past few days, Mary has a rough plan.

You can really try to write a book.

As a lover of criminal adventure and mystery suspense, Mary has a stomach for stories to write.She is determined not to plagiarize famous artists, even if she doesn't talk about respecting originality, if she takes a step back and says she wants to plagiarize, who is she copying from?Since there is Sherlock Holmes in this world, who can guarantee that Detective Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple do not exist?

Besides, Mary can draw inspiration from real crimes, why copy others.

Sitting at the table in the living room of Netherfield Manor, she wrote and drew, completely ignoring the hustle and bustle of other people's communication and entertainment, and immersed herself in her own world.

Elizabeth noticed Mary's absent-mindedness and asked aloud, "Are you writing, Mary?"

Mary came back to her senses: "Huh? No."

This aroused Elizabeth's curiosity. She put down her embroidery work and walked to Mary's side. She looked at the spread paper. There were more than a dozen names of strangers listed on it, and circles and crosses were drawn behind each of the names.

"Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgway... (*see note)"

Elizabeth read out the first few names with a puzzled look on her face: "What are you writing about? I don't know any of these people."

Mary: "..."

Elizabeth: "Mary?"

Mary: "...No, nothing."

It is the heroine in "Pride and Prejudice" who read the names of several famous serial murderers more than a hundred years later, that feeling is really out of harmony!

Mary was confused for a while because of the strange sense of space-time disorder, but she finally restrained her expression and said seriously: "I want to make some money by myself. Mr. Holmes inspired me. Since detective novels in London can be sold in Longbourne, I also want to make some money." You can write and try."

"make money?"

"Yes," Mary said naturally, "I'm not as good-looking as you and Jane, and my personality is not interesting, and I don't want to marry someone I don't like. It seems that I want to be an old lady for the rest of my life."

"Bah ah."

Elizabeth immediately frowned, and stopped Mary's words: "How can you curse yourself like that?"

Mary: "I'm telling the truth."

Elizabeth: "..."

The elder sister took a deep look at Mary and was speechless for a long time.

In all fairness, Mary's looks were not outstanding enough.Mrs. Bennet was beautiful when she was young, and this beauty was unequally bestowed on her five daughters, and Mary was the least inherited.

But she still has a witty and eccentric character, and she is lovable if she is lovable, that's up to Mary herself.What she didn't want to do, even if her mother talked about it for three days and three nights, she would turn a deaf ear to it.

For the love of marrying, Elizabeth absolutely agrees. She hopes that a smart girl like Mary can find a gentleman who is worthy of her.But listening to Mary's tone, it is clear that she has given up her plan to get married.

How can this work!

"Okay."

Seeing Elizabeth's serious expression, Mary guessed the worry without her opening her mouth.

In this era, the influence of "old maids" who cannot get married is very bad.According to "decent" social customs, the five Bennet sisters should start with Jane, and the next one can come out to socialize and get married after the top one gets married-fortunately, the Bennet family is in the country and doesn't care much about such red tape.

But even so, Elizabeth couldn't understand how there are women in this world who sincerely feel that marriage is not important.

As usual, Mary smiled and took Elizabeth's arm: "I just want to write something, why am I so unhappy. If my novel sells better than London's, maybe I will support you in turn !"

Elizabeth: "Oh, how much have you written now?"

Mary: "Uh." She hasn't even decided what to write.

Seeing her expression blank and speechless, Elizabeth burst out laughing.

For this reason, Elizabeth disagrees with Mary giving up looking for a good husband, but it is okay to write and write for entertainment.As Mary said, if her novel is successfully published and the sales volume is hot, who would dislike a lot of money.

"I'm not kidding you," said Elizabeth, "but if you write the beginning, I'll be the first to read it."

just forget it!

Mary glanced at the names of several killers on the paper, and felt that it was better not to torture Elizabeth's nerves.

She picked up the paper, and Elizabeth noticed the circle and cross after the name, and couldn't help but ask, "What are these marks?"

Mary: "Well, I'm thinking about ideas."

In fact, she was thinking which case was more suitable for adaptation.

There is a gap of more than a hundred years between the 21th century and the [-]st century, but with such rapid social development, some cases in real life are not suitable to be told in the Victorian period.Like Gary Ridgway on the list -- he's better known as the Green River Killer.

The Green River killer has been at large for decades. The police locked him in early, but they couldn't find any evidence to arrest him. It wasn't until the DNA testing technology was formally used in criminal investigations that they were able to prosecute the culprit.

At the time when Sherlock Holmes was active, people didn't know what dna was.

Therefore, those who need to use modern technology to solve crimes must be excluded, and those who do not need modern technology are not suitable for everyone.

The rapid development of society is the change of people's psychology.The alienation and distortion of capitalism on the relationship between people and between people and society is by no means imagined by people in the nineteenth century.

The homicides in the Victorian period were nothing more than vendettas, love killings, and desperation and red eyes for money.People's motives were straightforward, but in the 80s, law enforcement found that, in one bizarre case after another, they were often unable to find a clear motive in the behavior of serial killers.

Not without motivation, but more complicated.

Therefore, if she wants to draw inspiration from real cases, what Mary has to do is not to copy the process of solving the case.

She has to ensure that the current readers can understand the motivation of the characters, but also maintain the drama and twists of the novel, and make the story fascinating.

So filter it down...

"The stories marked with a cross are not suitable for writing," Mary pointed to the list and explained to Elizabeth, "The ones that are blank are the ones I am thinking about, and the ones circled are the stories that can be written."

Elizabeth's gaze immediately settled on the only circled name among the dozen or so names.

"Edmund Campbell. (*see note)"

She pronounced the name carefully: "Only his story is suitable, isn't it?"

Mary: "..."

It's really strange!

It's no wonder that Mary sighed many times. Her beautiful, dignified, agile and generous good sister pronounced the name of a demon, and Mary only felt uncomfortable.She nodded, and just as she was about to make a fool of herself, she heard Miss Bingley's voice from behind: "What story are you talking about?"

Mary retracted the paper blankly: "Nothing."

However, Miss Bingley didn't understand what Mary wanted to end the topic—she might have understood, but she just didn't want to.Miss Bingley sat down next to Mary and said with a smile, "I heard everything. Miss Mary is planning to write a novel by herself so that it can be published as a book, isn't it?"

"..."

Kind of ashamed.

Mary is not a flamboyant character, and she hasn't written yet, so it's too embarrassing to shout out like this!

However, Miss Bingley did not intend to lower her voice. When she spoke, even Mr. Hurst, who was playing bridge with Mr. Bingley, heard her.

"writing a novel?"

Mr. Bingley happily put down the cards in his hand, and agreed: "Miss Mary is quick-witted, and I think she will be able to write a good story."

"No."

Miss Bingley echoed: "You see, everyone here is well-informed and has read a lot of books. If you want to write a book, why don't you tell everyone the outline of the story so that gentlemen can give their opinions, maybe you can do it. To introduce you to a publisher, what do you say, Miss Mary?"

Mary responded by immediately putting on her trademark smirk.

How could she not understand what Miss Bingley meant?Now the young girl thinks of herself as the number one rival in love, and mistakenly thinks that she has a secret love for Mr. Darcy, so she can't wait for Mary to make a fool of herself in front of Darcy.

To be reasonable, Mary has no interest in Darcy at all, so she naturally doesn't mind acting as Elizabeth's shield.However, even if Miss Bingley's method is only a schoolboy's method, it would be annoying if it goes on and on!

Especially her instigation, her words and deeds are filled with the three big words "look down on", obviously she doesn't believe that Mary, a country lady, can come up with any good stories.

In this case, don't blame her for being rude.

"Okay," Mary said with a smile, "then I'll talk about it."

Even a figure outside the window could make Miss Bingley faint. Mary couldn't believe that she could relax so much after hearing the real case. It was she who wanted to hear it, and Mary didn't scare her on purpose!