What are the creative characteristics of James, an American thriller and mystery writer?

James Parsent is an American born in 1947. His first mystery novel is called "Thomas Berryman's Numbers". When he wrote his first novel, he was once Twenty-five publishing houses rejected it, and when he was about to give up, unexpectedly, the 26th publishing house extended an olive branch to him and successfully published "The Numbers of Thomas Berryman". Moreover, this novel also won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for international mystery novels. The Edgar Allan Poe Award is the Oscar in the world of detective novels, so its gold content is very high.

James was an outstanding advertiser at first. When he first entered the advertising industry, he was just a very junior copywriter. But with his talent for advertising, he became the North American president of the famous American advertising company JWT in just a few years. Clients he has served include Kodak, Burger King and many other well-known brands.

Later he became obsessed with writing detective novels because he worked in a mental hospital when he was in high school. At that time, he met a famous poet Lowell, who gave James Lots of literary inspiration. The creative characteristics of his novels are mainly reasoning and suspense. Because James has previous experience in the advertising industry, he is very good at creating some contradictions and conflicts in the story. Therefore, people who have read his novels will not put it down in the middle and want to continue. Read it all in one sitting. He was also named by Time magazine as the mystery writer who never fails.

For example, he wrote a novel called "Death No. 1". This novel mainly describes the story of a newlywed couple being killed. When the police were investigating, suddenly two or three more people were killed in the city. Newlyweds are being victimized one after another. In the end, the police locked the murderer on a writer with a red beard. Later, they entered the writer's room and discovered that his unfinished manuscript happened to contain the story of a newlywed couple. Just when the police determined that the writer was the murderer When , the result showed another big reversal...