Auguste Dupin. Nevertheless, they introduced elements which have become standard in detective and crime fiction. These stories include:. Poe's stories are available in his Tales. This book also includes other stories that influenced the genre, as described in the article above:.
Click to Order from Amazon. If Poe had not solidified the conventions that we recognize as marking the modern detective story, others likely would have done the same not long after. Literature was on its way to this discover; certainly, there had been a long lineage of characters who operated similarly, tracking down stolen objects and cracking impossible puzzles, and, like Dupin, doing so as private citizens, rather then as agents of the state.
In , the German novelist E. Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.
Except, of course, that he was. Advertisers: Contact Us. Privacy Policy. Another similarity: these are high stakes puzzles, not the routine stuff for these guys. They are impossible crimes with dazzling solutions. Poe invented the locked room mystery. Think about how amazing that concept is. A door is locked. A crime is committed. Nobody could get in or out, seemingly. Conan Doyle grabbed that one with both hands.
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