Astrology kills magic.

1980, Soji Shimada made a blockbuster with his debut novel "Astrology Killer", which became a legendary work in the hearts of japanese mystery fans, while Teru Shimada became the originator of Japanese new genre novels, and was praised as the god of mystery novels, the mentor of new genre, and one of the greatest contemporary mystery novelists.

Looking back at this work of 1980, it is not difficult to find the plot of water injection, or there are many plots that deliberately lead the audience to go in other directions, such as the whole plot of Shi Gang going to Kyoto alone to find the answer. There are many repetitions in the article, perhaps to remind readers of the key figures of the case and the case itself, just like Conan, who has many episodes, and we need to review it in the first few minutes of the next episode.

However, these flaws are not worth mentioning in the face of the magnificence and greatness of the core tactics of this book. This trick can be regarded as the pinnacle of mystery novels, and it cannot be copied. He created a unique trick that cannot be copied, so that in later film and television novels, as long as there are cases similar to this trick, it will be considered as a tribute or plagiarism. For example, the mystery of the secluded village in The Story of Jin Tianyi and Young Bao Qingtian has nothing to do with astrology in the background and motivation, but it uses astrology in the core tactics, which will make people see through it at a glance. This is the greatness of this move.

As the saying goes: it has been imitated and never surpassed.