【Locked Room】Childhood Fear, Three Dreams!

Twenty years ago, during college, I went to the used-book market as usual, and then brought back a set of three copies of the pirated "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" and read it in a week. Sure enough, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is an incomparable person, giving people a feeling that is difficult to express, but the pure reasoning story really shocked me, and the highest ranking of reasoning works in my heart is very stable, although preconceived, but also understandable.

Sherlock Holmes is a world-class cultural phenomenon, a symbol. Traditionally, speaking of his name naturally represents the world of reasoning, which is a cultural precipitation. Speaking of Holmes, there is a kind of "that's it" firmness in the eyes of people looking at each other. Therefore, there are many people trying to continue to write the story of "Sherlock Holmes", such as the British writer Anthony Hlovitz's "The House of Silk" is a very typical masterpiece, and there is this set of "Mary Russell and the Great Detective Holmes" series created by the American writer Laura King, Laura King is very talented, so far she has won many awards in the field of reasoning, known as Agatha Christie's successor, which shows her high level.

Now, finally having the privilege of reading laura King's Sherlock Holmes series, I was struck by its subversive creative ideas at the beginning. Holmes married the beautiful, wise, and brave Miss Mary Russell, and the two worked together to solve many complex and bizarre cases.

Locked room

"The Locked Room" tells the story of Mary Russell and Holmes returning to the United States by boat, dealing with their father's affairs behind them, a seemingly unremarkable journey that actually kills everything. Mary Russell discovers that someone in the old mansion seems to be sneaking in search of something? Then she was shot again in the alleys of Chinatown, and she kept repeating three identical dreams, the first inexplicable flying object in the sky, the second faceless man, and the third a locked room... Mary Russell's mood is a little out of control, because she suddenly finds that it is all related to the accident ten years ago, which caused the death of her parents and brother, and continue to dig, and more shockingly, all this is related to the earthquake and the fire that burned for three days and three nights...

Laura King's Sherlock Holmes series has an atmosphere of classical literature, and frankly, the setting of the scene, the dialogue of the characters, and the rhythm of the story are very much in line with the image of "Sherlock Holmes". Although the story is narrated in the first person as "Mary Russell", in this regard it is the same as Watson's role, but it is now being told as a wife. And the biggest difference is that Watson only makes statements, while Mary Russell goes on detectives and adventures with Holmes as a detective, which is especially important.

The story of "Locked Room" is fast-paced, the transition of scenes is very natural, and the points that throw down the puzzles are very clever and scratching. Holmes is still wise and good at reasoning from small aspects, which is very commendable, and Mary Russell, who is also a wife, is also quite tenacious, the childhood experience has been haunting her like a nightmare, the fear and uneasiness are about to swallow her up, but from the blow to the cheering up, the tenacious psychological conquest experience is described very cleverly, with practical actions to overcome fear... After all, the truth doesn't lie!