At the "China Suspense Literature Goes to the World - Talks with Suspense Master Zhou Haohui and The Death Notice Signing Conference" hosted by China Education Publications Import and Export Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CEPIEC) during this year's BIBF, writer Zhou Haohui announced the rights sales of Japanese, German, and Russian copyrights of The Death Notice. The German edition of the book will be launched in 2020 by science fiction publisher Heyne, which is also the publisher of The RhreeBody Problem in Germany.
It is reported that since its publication in 2009, The Death Notice has always had a high reputation and good sales and acclaimed by many readers as the masterpiece of China's high IQ crime novels. The novel tells the story of a high-intelligence game between the criminal policeman Luo Fei and the mysterious killer who calls herself "Eumenides"(the goddess of vengeance). The eponymous ?lm will be released this year. The English version of The Death Notice was published in the UK and the US last June, and sales exceeded 10,000 in half a year. At the same time, the book entered the "100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945" elected by Sunday Times. The US rights of The Death Notice was acquired by Doubleday (publisher of The Da Vinci Code) for a high price of $110,000. This is another overseas best-selling work created by CEPIEC after multiple language editions of The Three-Body Problem has sold 1.5 million copies globally.
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