I Love Detective Stories

By Zhongwanting

 I like reading English novels. I have read many books, such as “Treasure Island”, “Jane Eyre”, “Heidi” and “The Hound of Baskervilles”. Of all the different sorts of novels, I like detective stories best.

 I love reading detective stories because they are thrilling, mysterious, sometimes a little bit frightening and include a lot of logic and reasoning. And I just like all those kinds of things!

 Once I read a newspaper. There was a little test on it. It was as follows:

 What will you think about when you glance at the numbers 1850 or 1680?

 A.  Cashes

 B.  History ages

 C.  Dancing notes and small creatures

 D.  Secret codes or part of a telephone number

 And I chose B. The analysis was:

‘You are very sensitive to data. You have a very strong memory and good imagination, and you also have a strong feeling of time concept. This kind of people will not only find out the exact time of an event and the persons involved, but also comprehend the data involved in the event. So, this kind of people is fit to become detectives, lawyers, historians and doctors, etc. ...’

 When I read the analysis, I was very surprised. I even asked myself, ‘Am I fit to be a detective or all sorts of that?’

 Now, when I finish reading another detective story, I will ask myself yet again, ‘Is that really affinity or just a coincidence?’

 The first time I got in touch with detective stories was last year. In November, there was a film on TV. It was ‘Death on the Nile’. Mum said it was a very exciting detective movie, telling about a murder on a passenger ship which led to two other murders. In the end, the two murderers committed suicide.

 The day when the film would be broadcasted came at last. I was waiting eagerly, curious to watch it. Who were the murderers? How did they do it? ... I kept asking myself, which only made me even more eager.

 At last, the moment came. Dad turned on the TV. We waited. I stared at the clock on the wall. Then the exciting moment came. The film started.

The whole story was mysterious, frightening and thrilling. Some of the scenes were so frightening that I held to my mother’s hands tightly and tried to close my eyes. But I couldn’t, because the movie was very thrilling. I was unwilling to lose any of the circumstances. Finally, I finished watching that film with wonder and amaze.

 Ever since that weekend of watching ‘Death on the Nile’, I have become more and more interested in detective stories. I found detective stories very interesting and attracting. I can read a detective novel for hours, totally attracted by the clever detective and the cunning criminals, while a love story of the same length will interest me for only 15 minutes.

 The hero in my heart is the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. I have a dozen or more Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories on my bookshelf, such as ‘A Study in Scarlet’, ‘The Hound of Baskervilles’, ‘A Sign of Four’ etc. They are my favourites. I also have many detective books written by ‘The Queen of Crimes’, Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot, the great detective, who is also the main character in ‘Death on the Nile’, is also one of my favourite detectives. And I also love ‘The Internet Detectives Series’. The young detectives, Tamsyn, Rob, Josh, Tom, Lauren and Mitch, are all very bright. But here I would like to advise you: don’t buy books with one page of English and one page of Chinese. This kind of book probably will make you always think about Chinese while reading English books!

    广州市农林下路小学  四年（3）班  钟琬婷

                2001年6月10日

译文：

我喜欢侦探故事

 我喜欢英语小说，我读过很多小说，如《金银岛》《简·爱》《巴斯克维尔猎犬》《海蒂》。在众多小说中，我最喜欢的是侦探小说。

 我喜欢读侦探小说，是因为它刺激、神秘，又使人有点害怕，还包含着许多逻辑推理。而我就正好喜欢侦探小说的一切！

 有一次，我读报纸的时候，看到一个小测试（如下）：

 当你看到“1850”和“1680”这些数字的时候，你会想到什么？

 A. 钱的数目

 B. 历史年代

 C. 跳跃着的音符或一个个小人物

 D. 密码或电话号码的一部分

 我选择了B，分析是：

 “对数字很敏感，你有很强的记忆力和联想力，对时间概念也有很强的感受力。这种类型的人不仅要了解事件发生的时间、有关的人物，还要了解事件涉及的有关数据。因此，这种人很适合成为侦探、医生、文史研究员、律师等等。”

 当我读这些分析的时候，我很惊讶。我甚至在问自己：“我真的适合做侦探或者类似的工作吗？”

 现在，当我又一次读完一部侦探小说的时候，我又在问自己：“这是命中注定还是巧合？”

 我第一次接触侦探小说是在去年11月，电视上要演一部叫做《尼罗河上的惨案》的电影。妈妈告诉我，这是一部很刺激的侦探电影，它讲述的是在客船上发生了一起谋杀案，导致了两起连环谋杀的故事。最后，两名罪犯都自杀了。

 到了放映的那一天，我焦急地等待着，急切地想看到它。杀人犯到底是谁？他们是怎么作案的？我不停地问自己，以至于我更急切地想看到它了。

 最后，这一时刻终于到来了。爸爸打开电视，我们一起等待着，我不停地看着钟。令人兴奋的时刻到来了——电影开始了！

 整个故事是惊险、刺激、神秘的。有一些镜头很恐怖，我紧紧地抓住了妈妈的手，并试图闭上自己的眼睛，但是我不能，因为电影实在太吸引人了，我不希望错过任何细节。最后，我在感叹与惊奇中看完了电影。

 自从看了《尼罗河上的惨案》之后，我就迷上了侦探故事。我发现侦探故事是那么有趣和吸引人。我完全被故事中聪明的侦探和狡猾的罪犯所吸引，可以连续看几个小时侦探故事，但是如果是爱情故事的话，我可能只能坚持15分钟。

 我心目中的英雄就是著名侦探福尔摩斯。我的书架上有很多关于福尔摩斯的侦探小说，如《血字的研究》《巴斯克维尔猎犬》《四签名》等等，它们都是我最喜欢的。我还有一些侦探小说是“侦探女王”阿加莎·克里斯蒂写的。赫库·波洛是很著名的侦探，也是《尼罗河上的惨案》的主角，他是我最喜欢的侦探之一。我还喜欢《网络侦探丛书》，年轻的侦探汤姆、罗伯、乔什、泰姆馨、米驰都很聪明。但是在这儿我要提醒你们：千万别买一页中文一页英文的书，这可能会使你在看英文小说的时候老想看中文！

      广州市农林下路小学  四年（3）班  钟琬婷

                 2001年6月10日