Move aside manga, it's time for mystery

While stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie remain the favorite of fans of the detective fiction genre in China, Chinese youth are eyeing a more diversified collection.

Books from Japan appear to be the newest flavor.

Last Thursday, hundreds of young readers queued up to meet Japanese mystery novelist Soji Shimada during his first trip to China, which also marked the release of the latest Chinese version of his work, Jack the Ripper - One Hundred Years of Solitude.