Gusev Valery: biography and creativity

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Gusev Valery Borisovich is a modern Russian writer whose work occupies a niche in the detective genre. The author writes for both adults and young audiences. In the past, the winner of literary competitions, Gusev still leads an active creative life and pleases readers with new detective stories.

Gusev Valery: biography

At the moment, the writer is 75 years old. He was born in the distant military year of 1941. Place of birth - the city of Ryazan. The future writer lived then, like all his peers in the Soviet era. Graduated from the faculty of mechanization of MIISP. After graduating from the institute in 1964, he accepted an offer to work there as a teacher. Changed to a job closer to his current job in 1969.

First, the future writer became an ordinary editor in one of the well-known Soviet magazines, then he began working there as a deputy chief editor.

Valery Gusev began publishing for the first time in 1970. At that time, his essays and informational notes were published. And the author's first work of artpresented to readers in 1977.

First stories

At this time, his debut comes out - the story "The Sword to Prince Obolensky!"

Later this brainchild of the author was included in the annual almanac "Duel". A little later, in another edition, the following work by Valery Borisovich, "The First Case", was published, and then another action-packed story.

In his early creations, the author tells about young men who served in the police, who see romance in their work and completely surrender to it, defending the most just law in the world - the law of Soviet society.

Today, Valery Gusev still writes and publishes books. The plots of the works change and keep up with the times. Only one thing remains the main and unchanged in them - the spirit of adventure. His work as a writer was awarded a diploma of the competition of the Union of Writers and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Books in the amount of more than 50 pieces are published both in paper format and on various resources of the Runet, where they are available for online reading and downloading in electronic form.

Children's series "Children of Sherlock Holmes"

Currently, this series includes 56 books written from 1992 to 2016. The very first book in this series had the same name - "Children of Sherlock Holmes". According to the author's idea, the hero of the story was a 13-year-old boy, a fan of books about Sherlock Holmes and planning to imitate him.

The boy was seriously interested in the mysterious guests who visited his neighbors' apartment during their trip to distant lands. Having a helperseven-year-old brother, he starts investigating.

From book to book there is a story about how mischievous and restless brothers Dimka and Alyoshka Obolensky are busy with super-important investigations. Either Leshka’s classmate was robbed of an apartment on New Year’s Eve (“Talking Cache”), then a mysterious note falls into the hands of the brothers, solving the mystery of which, you can find a treasure (“School Security Agents”), then they manage to “steer” a real submarine (“Treasure of the sunken ship ).

For a teenage audience, Gusev Valery always wrote easily and excitingly, so the series is a success with schoolchildren and continues. Most likely, the writer will still please with new works with the participation of familiar characters who have become almost family.

This is a very successful literary device, when the main characters are the same in different books. The reader is glad to "see" them again on the pages of the next book and he can't wait to find out what awaits the heroes next. They are sympathized with, their jokes are laughed at, the next story of their adventures is recounted to friends.

Other works by this author

Besides the above-mentioned series, the author has children's books under the general theme "Big Book of Adventures". This cycle included fantasy, horror, espionage, fairy fairies, and pirates. Gusev Valery started writing it in 2008 and continues to work on it.

The author also has detective stories for adults. They can be read as part of the "Duel" series, launched by the Moskovsky Rabochiy publishing house back in 1975 and published until 1993. The series is an annual almanac that publishes works by Russian writers of adventure and action themes.

To get acquainted with the work of Valery Gusev, it is enough to buy a book in paper format or download it electronically from any book depository. Exciting emotions and enjoyment of the twisted plot are guaranteed to the reader.