"Night Without a Murderer" is a collection of short stories by Keigo Higashino. This time I looked at the Chinese edition translated by Yuan Bin in January 2018 and published by the People's Literature Publishing House.
Cover of Dark Night Without a Murderer
Keigo Higano, Japanese mystery koban artist, Yingiri landlord's main work "Hakuyatsu", "Accuser X Dedication", etc.
Keigo Higashino
Keigo Higashino 360 Encyclopedia Introduction
"Dark Night Without a Murderer" includes seven short stories: "Little Mischievous Story", "Two Men in the Dark", "Dancing Girl", "Endless Night", "White Murder Weapon", "Farewell, Coach", and "Dark Night Without a Murderer".
Among them, the ones that impressed me the most were "Dark Night Without Murderers", "Farewell, Coach", and "Dancer".
"The Dark Night Without the Murderer", as the title of the book, can see the particularity of this story at a glance. The story begins with the scene of the murder, unfolded by the accomplice's vision, and the two lines of darkness are clear, namely the present and the night. The bright line – now: mainly talks about how to deal with the development of the situation as a whole between the accomplice and the murderer's family; the dark line – night: a psychological description between the two accomplices. At the beginning, the question in the book is why the two accomplices should help the murderer's family. When the truth was finally revealed, I had to exclaim, it was so!
"Goodbye, Coach" is a story about athlete Naomi and the coach. It begins with Naomi's video suicide and unfolds from the perspective of the coach "I". At the beginning of the story, a small foreshadowing was buried, and I truly experienced the foreshadowing technique of "grass snake gray line, volting pulse thousands of miles away". When the final details are made clear by the author, it is as if he can carry the seven inches of the snake and lift the whole snake.
"The Dancing Girl" is a sad story. The story unfolds from the perspective of Takashi, who attends the training class, who secretly likes the girl who jumps in new gymnastics. Then, from the perspective of Kuroda, a tutor, he discovers the truth of the matter. When you know the truth, in addition to sighing sadly, you will also sigh the harm of violence and the heaviness of the last straw that crushes people. Although I hope that people can be full of warmth and kindness between people. But in reality, everyone bears their own pressure and external harm and struggles in the world.
Seven short stories, each unfolding differently, the truth of each story is hidden in the details. Although there will be a vague feeling when reading, this person is the murderer! But when the truth is fully presented in front of me, I still have to sigh, it is so, it really should be so!