Creative and Analytic - Edgar Allan Poe - the Teacher of Sherlock Holmes
What are the basic Elements of the Classic Detective Story?
In only three short stories Poe built the basis for a new literary genre.
Crime, Mystery, Riddles, Death, and The Obscure fascinated people since all times. Many, if not most authors dealt with such subjects, in the centre or at the peripheries of their works.
Poe was the first to make the detective (he did not give him this name though) the central protagonist and his case the single content of a story for the first time.
The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe and A Plausible Solution
Amazing Parallel to Poe's Own Stories
I hope, I will find more new articles on what finally seems to be the answer to this question Poe-Biograhers quarreled about but never found. (As to the subtitle: This will be a post on its own, and who knows the detective stories will see it at once reading the linked article)
- New clue sheds light on Edgar Allan Poe's death - Times Online
- A bestselling novelist believes that he has solved Edgar Allan Poe's final
mystery - the cause of the writer's early death.
Solving a Mystery by following Newspapers
Can the truth be found this way?
When Edgar Allan Poe read about the murder of a young girl, he transferred the happenigs to France and let The Private Investigator C. Auguste Dupin (almost) solve "The Murder of Marie Roget".
Dupin never visited the crime scene, he only read all the articles about the forensic research that was done. And he drew some slightly different conlusions from the reported facts.
The Murder Case of Mary Rogers, the original Vitim, was not solved, so "The Murder of Marie Roget" has not really an end either.
As usual, there were the different opinions of friends and haters of Poe: the latter said Dupin got no where close to any result, and the others claimed, he got closer to the truth than the Police did.
But Poe was no forensic scientist - I'm not sure, if such existed already at his time. Only years later, Sherlock Holmes startled the official criminalistics into realizing, that indeed much more can be seen by scientific research.
Dupin never visited the crime scene, he only read all the articles about the forensic research that was done. And he drew some slightly different conlusions from the reported facts.
The Murder Case of Mary Rogers, the original Vitim, was not solved, so "The Murder of Marie Roget" has not really an end either.
As usual, there were the different opinions of friends and haters of Poe: the latter said Dupin got no where close to any result, and the others claimed, he got closer to the truth than the Police did.
But Poe was no forensic scientist - I'm not sure, if such existed already at his time. Only years later, Sherlock Holmes startled the official criminalistics into realizing, that indeed much more can be seen by scientific research.
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- Leisure Audio Books Murders in the Rue Morgue, The: The Dupin Stories - Edgar Allan Poe Fiction / Classics
- The three famous Dupin stories, which provided Doyle with the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
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- The second Edgar Allan Poe Collection, including "The Muders in the Rue Morgue".
4 hours, 28 minutes, $9.00 - Leisure Audio Books Classic Poe - Edgar Allan Poe Fiction / Classics
- Poems and Stories The Bells %u2022 The Cask of Amontillado %u2022 The Tell-Tale Heart %u2022 The Fall of the House of Usher %u2022 The Raven %u2022 The Black Cat %u2022 Berenice %u2022 The Man Who Was All Used-Up.
Narrator: Ralph Cosham
2 hours 30 minutes $15.95
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