About the author

Mai Jia is a contemporary Chinese writer. Publicly available information about him is limited, and his nationality and dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. Four of his works are included in this collection, with representative titles such as The Message, Selected Works of Mai Jia, and The Old House. His works are commonly classified under quality fiction, mystery and detective fiction, literature, classical literature, and documentary literature. These works suggest that Mai Jia's writing often centers on suspense and deduction, with carefully designed plots and a tense atmosphere; he is skilled at advancing the narrative through layers of mystery while combining literary quality with readability. His writing creates a distinctive tension between genre fiction and serious literature, drawing sustained reader attention and offering a noteworthy example for Chinese mystery and detective fiction.

Written (4)

The Old House Mai Jia Flower City Magazine · 2023 Mai Jia is known to readers for his spy novels Decoded, In the Dark, and The Message, but "The Old House" is an important work from his turn toward ho… Rating 4.2★ The Message Mai Jia Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 The Message is a major novel by Mai Jia, first published in full in People's Literature in 2007, where it won the magazine's Best Novel of the Year aw… Rating 4.1★ The Message Mai Jia Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 The Message is the concluding work of Mai Jia's "Decryption Trilogy," and the story begins by West Lake in Hangzhou in the spring and summer of 1941. … Rating 4.0★ Selected Works of Mai Jia Mai Jia Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2010 Published by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House in February 2010, Selected Works of Mai Jia belongs to the "Cross-Century Literary Collect…

Publishers

Flower City MagazineShanghai Literature and Art Publishing HouseYangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House