Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 313 Unable to keep up with the printing speed (23)
The two books "The Silent Witness" and "Tragedy on the Nile" are also Zhang Zhong's favorites in the Poirot series.

Among them, the main plot of "The Silent Witness" revolves around the death and will of the elderly and wealthy Emily Arundell.

Emily Arundell accidentally fell on the stairs two weeks before her death. Relatives and servants said it was caused by the dog Bob's ball.But Emily felt a little suspicious in retrospect, so she wrote a letter to the famous detective Poirot.

It was two months after Poirot received the letter. There was nothing unusual about this letter, and it didn't have any substantive content. Emily just wanted to entrust Poirot to do some private investigations for her.

But the date of the letter aroused great interest for Poirot. The date of writing was April 4, and the date of posting was June.

It took two months before the letter was sent.

This matter made Poirot feel puzzled and curious, and he and his assistant, Hastings, went to Beixin Town to meet with the client to find out.

It's just that when the two of them drove for more than an hour from London to the town villa, they found out that the client, Emily, had passed away for more than a month.

Emily's villa has long since changed hands and is for sale.

What is strange is that Amy did not leave the inheritance to her relatives, but to her personal maid, Miss Lawson.And Miss Lawson has only served Emily for more than a year.

A maid who has only known each other for more than a year has such a good relationship that he left the inheritance to her. No matter how you look at it, this matter is a bit strange.

Although the client was dead, Poirot and his assistants decided to investigate, pretending to be multiple identities and launching a series of visits and investigations around relevant personnel.

The content of another "Tragedy on the Nile" is that Miss Linnett, who owns a million dollars, married her friend Jacqueline's lover Simon, and they took a luxury cruise ship sailing from England to the Nile River in Egypt for their honeymoon.

The yacht carried the rich and nobles from all over the world.

Linnett was shot in the head and died, and the prelude to the story kicked off. At the same time as her death, her pearl necklace worth [-] pounds disappeared.

From the very beginning, it was obvious that this was a murder case.But in fact, Linnett became a dead soul precisely because of her wealth.

Agatha's novels are traditional detective novels, and they always arrange the story to a seemingly unexpected ending.

"Death on the Nile" is like this, and "The Silent Witness" is also like this, but the difference is that when the ending of "Death on the Nile" came out, although there were not many leaks revealed in the plot arrangement of the novel, Zhang Zhong didn't feel too surprised, because he had already noticed it.

Of course, this is not Agatha's mistake, but all cases pay attention to motives and conditions. Without these two things, it would not be called a detective novel.

Since it is about motives and conditions, Linnett's husband, Simon, cannot escape the relationship. No matter how ingeniously their plan is designed, they cannot escape the sight of detectives and readers.

Zhang Zhong looked at the last "Ordinary World", but did not read it, but put it aside, and concentrated on typing out the two detective novels first.

There were only two Poirot series published before, and a group of Poirot fans urged Zhang Zhong to continue writing Poirot every day.

Looking through the book review sections of all Zhang Zhong's books on the Internet, he can almost see such comments, and there are quite a few people who support him.

Now it's all right, two books came at once, enough for them to read.

Zhang Zhong also wanted to get these two books out early to relieve their anxiety.

Of course, apart from this point, Zhang Zhong also wanted to make the Poirot series as soon as possible. He had always wanted to get the books of the Poirot series.

Zhang Zhong has read almost all of Agatha's books, so he can probably write this one, but what he writes is definitely different from what Agatha wrote.

Although his style is changing now, the detective novels in the same series have too many styles, which is also difficult to accept.

Although the previous two books have initially outlined the image of Poirot, it is definitely not enough. If you want to make the Poirot series fuller, you will definitely need more cases.

With the two books in his hands now, he plans to put them on shelves in October and November, or November and December.

It only took four days for Zhang Zhong to record these two books, and revised the contents that were somewhat contrary to this world.

After finishing it, he first sent "The Silent Witness" to Chen Qing.

There are two versions he sent to Chen Qing, both in English and Chinese.

Seeing another book sent by Zhang Zhong, Chen Qing felt complicated.

The more business the company has, the happier he, the general manager, must be. However, Chen Qing gradually discovered that the size of their company could not keep up with Zhang Zhong's book publishing speed.

Before, he was still thinking that one author, Zhang Zhong, might handle as many affairs as a dozen other authors, but now it seems that the usual dozen or so authors are probably not as good as him alone.

Because Zhang Chong not only publishes books very fast, but also has a lot of copyright affairs for his books.

Recently, "After School" has not been finished yet, and the physical publication of "I, Robot" is about to start, and now there are two books "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "The Silent Witness".

Not to mention, there's a whole heap of copyright stuff to deal with.
The company needs to expand its scale, Chen Qing came up with such an idea.

Of course, it was not Chen Qing, but Lin Lin who was most distressed, because their existing printing factory could no longer keep up.

In fact, they have been unable to keep up for a long time, but they have cooperated with other printing houses before.

If this continues, Lin Lin may consider opening a branch office in Jinling City.

There are more printing factories over there, and the scale is also larger.

It may sound intimidating for a single publishing house to overwhelm a city's printing companies, but it is what it is.

The domestic sales of Zhang Zhong’s books are often several million. This is only the first year. Although the sales will slow down in the future, it will still need to be printed after a period of time. In the end, the sales of a book may reach thousands. Ten thousand.

With 1000 million books, it will take at least half a year for an ordinary printing house to finish printing.

Several printing factories started working together in order to keep up with sales.

Now that Zhang Zhong is publishing books faster, Jiangyang's printing factory can't keep up.

Lin Lin also thought about opening a few more printing factories with his own capital, but it would be risky. After all, no one can be sure whether Zhang Zhong will still have such a high efficiency in the future. If Zhang Zhong does not publish in the future, then The few printing houses he added fell into his hands.

(End of this chapter)