侦探小说是中国通俗小说中惟一的舶来品。据有关研究资料表明,中国最早翻译外国侦探小说的是《时务报》的英文编辑张坤德,他所译的是亚瑟·柯南·道尔的四部作品,分别连载于1896年至1897年的《时务报》第六至十二册、第二十四至三十册上。然而尽管它们起步比较早,并且带动了大批的追随者,可是由于一开初就受到同时的政治小说翻译挤压,因此影响并不大。比如创刊于光 Detective fiction is the only exotic product in Chinese popular novels. According to relevant research data, the earliest Chinese translator of foreign detective novels is Zhang Kunde, an English editor of Current Affairs. He translated four works by Arthur Conan Doyle, serialized in 1896 to 1897, "Sixth to twelve, twenty-fourth to thirty. However, although they started earlier and led a large number of followers, they were not greatly influenced by the simultaneous translation of political fiction in the first place. For example, founded in the light