The characteristic of detective catelory in Bui Huy Phon novels in the period 1930 -1945

We studied Bui Huy Phon works as a member of the Han Thuyen group. It can be seen that Bui Huy Phon is the only writer in the group wrote detective stories. When approaching Courageous Woman, The Will of the Tran Thach Family, Inheritance Enemy, etc…we will learn the characteristics of the detective genre expressed in both content and art, and point out the limitations of Bui Huy Phon when he first tried this new genre. With the content being a realistic urban picture depicting the characters' extremes and calculations, the writer has built a somewhat ghostly cover in confusing cases, in order to cover up the layers of colorful and artificial forms of people trying to "squeeze" towards Western civilization. It is hoped that these approaches will be an opportunity to open up a valuable literary underground in the Han Thuyen group in particular and in Vietnamese detective literature in general.