Chapter 71: Nine Types of Tricks

The so-called tricks in detective novels are mainly the murderer's schemes to achieve criminal purposes or cover up criminal facts. And the exposure of the tricks has become a refreshing point that makes all detective novel readers unable to stop.

In his past life, Edogawa Ranpo, known as the "Father of Nihon Detective Reasoning Novels," specifically classified various tricks on the market.

What Akiwara Yuto is saying now is the final version narrated by Edogawa. These contents were not taught in his professional courses in his past life, but as a reasoning fan, he learned about this content in relevant forums.

And he decided to say these things here, also having his own considerations. After all, the nine types of trick methods are just theory, and it is far from being actually applied. Any writer who designs tricks must also consider the fit with the story.

Even if he doesn't say it, he guesses that someone will do relevant research in a few years. Since that's the case, it's better to make it public first to make his name known.

However, after hearing Akiwara Yuto's words, Ishii Yu was surprised: "Only nine types! Teacher Akiwara, you are not joking, right."

As a detective writer, he usually understands quite a few detective works himself. In his view, the tricks of reasoning can be described as thousands, how can there be only nine types.

Seto Tamae was also a bit confused, showing a surprised look, and Kadowaki Yuzhen even sneered directly.

Akiwara Yuto didn't care about the performance of others, but continued to say: "In the nine types of tricks I analyzed, the first is about the personal tricks of the murderer or the victim, the second is about the tricks of the murderer entering and leaving the scene, the third is about the tricks of the time of the crime, the fourth is about the tricks of the murder weapon and poison, the fifth is about the tricks of the disappearance of people or objects, the sixth is various other tricks, the seventh is the types of code notation, the eighth is abnormal motives, and the ninth is clues to discover ingenious crimes."

Hearing these contents that Akiwara Yuto said, the people who were originally a bit disapproving were also stunned: Kadowaki Yuzhen showed a serious expression, Seto Tamae's brows furrowed, and the worry on Imamura Yuto's face also disappeared.

Ishii Yu nodded thoughtfully and asked: "Teacher Akiwara, then which trick type do you think the trick I just said belongs to?"

"Teacher Ishii, I think the trick you constructed using chemistry belongs to the fourth type of trick I just said, which is the trick about the murder weapon and poison."

Akiwara Yuto picked up the teacup and took a sip, then continued to say: "Chemistry or physics are all murder weapons used by the murderer to kill the victim. By analogy, we can use more methods to design methods, for example, let the murderer use animals, electricity, strange bullets, and sharp weapons, or let the victim die of beating, drowning, strangulation, crushing, falling, and poison. Besides, just in terms of poison, it can also be divided into swallowing poison, injection poison, and inhalation poison."

Although they were just discussing trick methods, hearing Akiwara Yuto talk so seriously about how to kill victims, many writers in the field still subconsciously swallowed their saliva, suspecting whether Akiwara Yuto was perverted in his heart.

Kadowaki Yuzhen was also silent. He began to think about whether it was the right decision to continue to provoke Akiwara Yuto like this. After all, it would be too much of a loss to be killed for the sake of a dispute...

Seto Tamae was interested and nodded. Akiwara Yuto's statement made her eyes shine. She thought for a moment and asked politely: "Teacher Akiwara, can you talk about the first type of method you just mentioned, which is the personal method."

Akiwara Yuto nodded and then narrated: "I divided the personal method into four categories, which are one person playing two roles, criminals other than one person playing two roles, the criminal killing himself, and strange victims."

Hearing this, everyone in the field was even more curious, and some even took out notebooks to start recording.

Akiwara Yuto didn't care, and said in an unhurried speed: "First of all, one person playing two roles. Generally speaking, besides the detective, detective novels have victims, murderers, and other suspects. So why can't the criminal become the victim, or the criminal and the victim are the same person? By analogy, it can also be designed that the criminal is fictional, the criminal wants to transfer the criminal's identity, the criminal dresses up as a victim, etc."

Kadowaki Yuzhen heard this and also silently wrote it down in his heart. His work is about police catching criminals, and many methods mentioned by the other party can be used for reference...

Seto Tamae was also thoughtful, muttering: "Then the criminal can also be a detective or other personnel..."

"Teacher Seto is right," Akiwara Yuto smiled, "This is the criminal other than one person playing two roles. Besides the detective, the criminal can also be a policeman, a discoverer of the case, a corpse, or other animals."

Imamura Yuto was curious: "How can a corpse kill someone?"

Akiwara Yuto replied: "For example, the criminal first designs a mechanism, and then swallows an excessive amount of poison to die. After death, due to the role of the mechanism, his corpse is operated to make some movements, can't it lead to the victim's death? However, such a design is a bit far-fetched, and the criminal's motive must be carefully polished."

Everyone in the audience looked at each other. This trick was a bit unexpected. If it was matched with a suitable motive, such as a love affair, perhaps it could make many readers look at it.

A writer who had spoken before also raised his doubts: "Teacher Akiwara, can you explain in more detail the trick of the murderer entering and leaving the scene."

Akiwara Yuto was a bit thirsty, but still satisfied his request: "In fact, this trick is also a general locked-room method. I subdivided it into four categories, which are the criminal not in the room during the crime, the criminal in the room during the crime, the victim not in the room during the crime, and the locked-room escape trick."

"The criminal not in the room during the crime is the most common. Generally speaking, it is the murderer using the mechanism in the room or together with the gaps and windows in the room to kill. Besides, it is disguising the suicide in the room as a murder, or disguising the murder as a suicide. Here, a non-human criminal can also be arranged in the room."

"It is not difficult to think about the criminal being at the scene during the crime. It is the criminal creating a locked room that others think, for example, using a special mechanical device to open the locked room, for example, making the time of the crime earlier or later than people think, and for example, hiding directly behind the door."

"The other two categories, I shouldn't need to say more, right."

Seto Tamae saw that his tea was finished, immediately greeted the servant to take the tea, but this time she got up herself, poured the tea, and handed it to Akiwara Yuto, while politely requesting.

"Teacher Akiwara, since we have talked here, please finish the nine types of tricks you just mentioned. Every teacher wants to hear your high opinion."

Akiwara Yuto looked around, saw the desire in the eyes of these writers, Kadowaki Yuzhen, although he lowered his head, was also discovered by him secretly taking notes.

Akiwara Yuto thought for a moment and continued to talk: "The third method is the trick about the time of the crime, which are..."

For a while, the whole tea room seemed to have become his personal lecture hall, and others could only honestly be students.

To be honest, the content he said was not much in the reasoning fan circle of his past life, but for this world where no one has systematically analyzed reasoning methods, it made people feel particularly novel, like enlightenment, suddenly enlightened... ===== CHAPTER 72 =====