About the author

Bai Ye is a Chinese author about whom little public information is available. Six works can currently be confirmed, spanning mystery fiction and otherworld fantasy. The mystery titles include Knife and Umbrella, The Tragedy of Twin Moon City, The Rough and Vague Phantom Thief's Warning Letter: Case Files of the Metropolitan Police Special Investigation Unit, Disappeared!, and the three-volume Escape Room Mystery Game, whose titles point to a clear fondness for classic devices such as locked-room puzzles, phantom-thief warnings, and police special-investigation procedurals. The three-volume format of Escape Room Mystery Game suggests considerable attention to puzzle design. Light's Successor, meanwhile, is classed as otherworld fantasy, showing that Bai Ye does not confine himself to a single genre. Overall, his output is not large, yet it ranges across honkaku-style deduction and fantasy adventure, with plots driven mainly by tricks and suspense. As no reliable records of his birth and death dates, nationality, or life history have been found, no speculation is offered here.

Written (6)

Locked-Room Mystery Game (Complete 3 Volumes) cover
Rating 3.8
Locked-Room Mystery Game (Complete 3 Volumes) 歌野晶午 / 白夜 New Star Press · 2026 Five mystery fans with strange IDs gather on a mystery-game website and take turns setting puzzles. Each describes a case in the voice of the murderer…
The Heir of Light cover
Rating 2.9
The Heir of Light 白夜 · 2026 [Superpower fantasy adventure + ensemble cast + coming-of-age] Seventeen-year-old Luo Zining suffers a serious injury in a competition and has to take…
The Rough and Vague Phantom Thief's Advance Notice: National Police Agency Special Case Investigation Unit Files cover
Rating 3.9
The Rough and Vague Phantom Thief's Advance Notice: National Police Agency Special Case Investigation Unit Files 仓知淳 / 白夜 New Star Press · 2025 Sosuke Kijima yearns for a stable clerical post, and to that end he passes the fiercely competitive civil service exam and joins the National Police A…
Vanished! cover
Rating 3.9
Vanished! 中西智明 / 白夜 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2025 Three murders strike a certain city. The first victim, a woman named Mary, dies next door to a rock band's rehearsal room; the second victim, Yuji, is…
Knife and Umbrella cover
Rating 4.1
Knife and Umbrella 伊吹亚门 / 白夜 New Star Press · 2023 In the third year of Keiō, as the new government and the old shogunate stand opposed, Kyoto is thrown into turmoil at the end of the Tokugawa era. The…
The Tragedy of the City of Two Moons cover
Rating 4.0
The Tragedy of the City of Two Moons 加贺美雅之 / 白夜 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2023 In the twin-moon city where past and present interweave, a bloody murder secret from a stormy night echoes through the cellar, the spiral staircase, t…

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China Friendship Publishing CompanyNew Star Press