Unlike the brainwashing of neo-Benguet writers, the old and classic story model seems to have become obsolete. But in the minds of many speculative fans, this royal level story structure is the most fascinating theme of speculative fiction.
The "Blizzard Mountain" model, this term alone is enough to make many people excited.
Isolated closed environments, all kinds of bizarre serial events, limited by the closed environment and very limited murder candidates, the search for the truth and the desire to survive at the same time pull up the tension of suspense, creating the most tense sense of urgency. It can be said that an excellent Blizzard Mountain villa novel is a feast for readers to enjoy.
1. "Lilac Manor" – Tetsuya Kakegawa
Tetsuya Kakegawa's signature work, a Japanese temple-level reasoning work. Although it is not a completely enclosed space in the strict sense, after all, there are people entering and leaving and even police detectives appearing in the middle of the way, but the closed setting of the Blizzard Mountain Villa mode is intended to lock the suspect range inside the manor, and from this point of view, the setting of this game has no impact. Ever since seven art university students moved into Lilac Villa, the calm manor suddenly caused a bloody storm that caught people off guard. The book's two simple and ingenious core tricks almost turn the later half of the Story of Blizzard Hill into a clumsy imitation, and Gein's trick is too classic to fit into such a theme. This book is definitely a benchmark work of excellent quality.
2. "Seven Witnesses" – Kyotaro Nishimura
One of Nishimura's most famous masterpieces, it has a gorgeous opening that makes people want to continue watching at first glance - the Totsugawa Police Department and seven men and women wake up on a mysterious island and find that they are all witnesses to a murder case a year ago, and at this moment, the street houses and all the facilities on the island are exactly the same as the crime scene in Tokyo, thousands of miles away... Isn't it more exciting to restore the place of another case and all the parties directly on an isolated island than to build a "xx pavilion" or something like that? While this isolated island served as a debate court for the truth of the year, there was a serial murder case on the island, and the stage was directly full, and the reader only needed to quietly enjoy the performances of the seven actors...
3. The Mystery of the Siamese Siamese – Ellery Quinn
The originator of the speculative fiction "Blizzard Mountain Villa" model. The only series of country names without a "challenge to the reader" section diluted Quinn's most iconic logical flow deduction, but achieved the best thrill in the national series, and created a classic model that would later fascinate countless reasoning fans. In terms of quality alone, it may not be Quinn's best work, but the status bonus of the pioneering work is placed here. There is no snowstorm in this story, and the Quinn father and son are forced to the top of a villa by a sudden wildfire. Unlike the blizzard that only closes the road and prohibits people from going out, the raging mountain fire will slowly approach the top of the mountain all the time, which is a real threat to life. In such a desperate situation of life and death countdown, there are also serial murders in the hilltop villa. This is a life and death race that makes people nervous from beginning to end, the suspense of survival has been retained until the end, the approaching mountain fire has greatly intensified the tension and excitement of the story, reading it makes people sweat, the murderer does not matter, just want to see if the last people can successfully escape. In the end, the landslides destroyed the house, and Quinn, who was trapped in the basement and still had to reveal the real murderer in front of everyone when he died, was not too handsome - of course, this time he naturally succeeded in installing X.
4. "Hell's Edge" – Heke Tarbert
The second place in the legendary world's top ten secret rooms, the classic strange chapter of impossible crime in the history of reasoning that is respected by many reasoning masters. In the Snowstorm of the New England wilderness, a mysterious séance ceremony in a wooden house. The first sentence captures the reader's heart – "I came here to change the mind of a dead man." The purest classical gothic mystery novel, including summoning spirits, chambers of secrets, vanishing footprints, ghosts, flying strange birds, impossible fingerprints, killing people through walls... Many dark and grotesque elements are fused into a cold and windy story. In a polar-like white and dead environment, with a succession of incredible supernatural events, the magicians present tried to give reasonable tricks and trickeries one by one, but they were defeated in the face of new unsolvable puzzles. This is a Blizzard Villa work that takes the atmosphere as the element to the extreme, the whole book lists more than a dozen impossible crimes, and can give a concise answer to the pure character, which is definitely a masterpiece that cannot be missed for readers who like the dark and strange style of classical Gothic.