Dinner was held in the garden, with an independent pavilion set up on the green lawn, and a long solid wood table filled with Italian specialties. There is no need to say much about pizza covered with thick cheese. Traditional meat sauce and seafood black pepper pasta were filled with large iron plates. The Black Forest cake was not yet served, but as a pre-dinner snack, the aroma of fragrant roasted chicken wings and soft fries was also extremely charming. Not to mention the various thick soups kept serving, and the table was filled with milky fragrance.

"Ashley, you should learn more from Alice, whether it is "Jurassic Park" or "Ghost Records", see how talented she is! Alice, please forgive me for being sensible. Not to mention the box office revenue of the movie, the publication of this science fiction novel alone can already make you earn millions of royalties, right?"

Alice blinked and faced the eyes of the table, she smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I didn't pay much attention, because I have been busy with other things for a while, but the millions must have arrived. Not long ago, the Bantam sent me an email saying that the total sales across the United States have exceeded 500,000 copies. In terms of overseas markets, the Japanese version was first released, and German, French and Italian were also stepping up production."

Ashley's father, O'Leary's father, said to his wife: "See, Japan's current strength is becoming more and more terrifying. From this aspect, it can be seen that the first batch of overseas versions were translated for those Japanese. However, people of their nation do love reading and are a very large market."

At this point, Alice suddenly moved her heart and said, "When talking about the Japanese book market, they have fully developed the mystery novels of originating from Britain. Mr. O'Leary, do you know anything about the current Japanese mystery novelists?"

Mr. O'Leary pondered a little and said, "The originator of Japanese mystery literature is of course Edogawa Ranbu. The industry's highest award for mystery novels, Edogawa Ranbu was established in his name. Then, those from the 1950s and 1960s are all old antiques for you, and the current mystery novelists..."

This seemed to be a difficult problem. Mr. O'Leary thought about it carefully, but said: "I can't think of it, there is no one that can attract my attention..."

Ashley's mother, Alice's real goal for this trip, is a design consultant for three world-class brands. Of course, she not only dresses beautifully, but also has proper skin care. Sitting next to her fourteen-year-old daughter, she looks like a pair of sisters, and even mother-daughter flowers are not enough.

When her husband's last words fell, she slurped with seafood butterscotch and chuckled: "My husband is very interested in the literature of reasoning. He has collections of works by Sherlock Holmes, Agatha and Ed Gambo."

In this way, Alice's eyes drooped and said, "If you look at it that way...who newcomers won this award last year and this year?"

In this regard, he is worthy of being a person who loves reasoning literature. Mr. O'Leary opened his mouth and gave him two names.

"That's how..."

In this way, after hearing two completely unfamiliar names, Alice's eyes rolled silently.

Edogawa Ranbu Award...

This award was established in 1954 to celebrate the 60th birthday of Edogawa Ranbu, the founder of Japanese mystery novels. It was the first one since 1955 and once every year. The first two awards were special research on mystery novels, and since the third one in 1957, it became an award specifically to encourage new writers.

From a status perspective, it is the highest honor of Japanese mystery novels, as well as famous awards, including the Yokogami Official History Award and the Japanese Mystery Association Award.

As for the manuscripts for the Edogawa Ranbu Award, the number of unpublished ones is limited to the number of judges. Each time, the judges are composed of five people, and they are re-employed every year, and some are repeatedly hired. As the winner, his works are published by Tanshe, a famous national publisher.

The greatest value of this award is that most of the new writers who won the award later grew into masters of mystery novels.

Alice's question is concerned with a newcomer who should have won the award in 1985.

Keigo Higashino.

Of course, as a Japanese mystery novelist, we cannot expect the mainland people in the 21st century to know him much. After all, people at that time often focused on success theory and teaching materials. There were relatively few people who could read mystery literature with a state of mind.

But Alice happened to know him very well. In fact, any 21st century mystery literature enthusiast, or even more macro, could never have heard of the name of Keigo Higashino in any way.

Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka in 1958. His birthday was only ten days away from Valentine's Day. He studied electrical engineering at university. Later, he worked as a production technology engineer at a famous auto parts supplier and wrote mystery novels. Then in 1985, he won the Edogawa Ranbu Award for his debut work "After School", and began his professional writing career.

His early works were mostly exquisite and meticulous inscriptions, just like every episode of "Detective Conan". The writing style of the later period became more and more sophisticated, the words were freshly crafted, the narrative was concise and fierce, the plot was ups and downs, and the story structure was almost incredible. He was good at writing extremely reasonable stories from extremely unreasonable aspects, and his style gradually surpassed the framework of traditional mystery novels and began to transform into a social faction, focusing on the good and evil of society and human nature while describing cases.

As such a new literary master, his books inevitably entered the mainland market. He even topped the "Rich List of Foreign Writers" issued by the mainland with millions of yuan in royalties and ranked at the forefront. He was able to achieve this level in the mainland market with the theme of mystery novels and the identity of Japanese writers. You can imagine how powerful his strength is.

However, now, Mr. O'Leary has given a completely unfamiliar name for the 33rd Edogawa Ranbu Award, which should have allowed Keigo Higashino to rise?

And last year, Keigo Higashino had no share.

"Is it because of the butterfly effect that he wrote a book late, or did he simply stop writing? Or is there simply no such person in the world?"

It was night, after dinner, Alice wandered alone in O'Leary Manor. Although she could see the busy figures of maids everywhere, she didn't care at all, but was just thinking about her own problems.

"Yes, after all, at the beginning, he was writing while working in an auto parts factory. Maybe he suddenly fell in love with the job of an engineer and might not be too lazy to write books. So, wouldn't I have the chance to copy his book and make some extra money in Japan?"

God knows that Alice bought the complete works of Keigo Higashino in his previous life, but she is still a prolific writer. There are as many as fifty or sixty works with Chinese translations. If you buy the full set, it will cost thousands of yuan!

"Making money is secondary. People are so talented that I have, so I have to pursue it more. Anyway, copying a few books doesn't take much energy. I get the identity of a god-level bestselling writer, and paired it with the title of the richest man in the world without any suspense... Oh, how should I edit Baidu Encyclopedia in the future? Oh, it's really worrying~"

Just as Alice's saliva was about to flow out, Ashley ran into the garden and recruited her, "Hi, Alice, go to the living room, it's time to talk about business after dinner!"

Alice looked at her watch and it was about nine o'clock at night. Although Hannah had already sneaked into the bedroom in a daze, this time was just the beginning of a fight with a lot of homework for students in private middle schools. Although Alice was not old, holding a simple meeting was nothing.

In this way, Alice took Ashley's arm and walked into the room and smiled, "Do you want to have a bed with me tonight?"

Seeing Ashley's exaggerated eyebrows, Alice smiled a little.
Chapter completed!