Auguste dupin sherlock holmes
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I suspect I’ll revisit this little collection every few years, to see what else I might find there. They’re important in the development of the detective story genre, to be sure, but it’s probably just as well that the genre kept on developing. I think the stories are certainly worth reading, but (at least for the second story), it’s primarily interest value rather than entertainment. Amateur Reader’s comment is interesting, though again not one that encourages me to reread this collection. Hm, I have a different edition of this work sitting on a shelf at home, I read it years ago but had few memories of it, reading your review I suspect I now know why I didn’t remember it much – it doesn’t sound that memorable.Īh well, not every purchase can be a good one. I wrote about Poe, including the mysteries, a month or so ago on Wuthering Expectations. More reasons why this story is such a dud. Poe’s goal was to use his story to present his solution to the actual unsolved case. Not only is “Marie Roget” based on an actual case, which Poe clumsily drops into Paris, but the excerpts from newspaper articles are the actual newspaper articles. Look out also for April title Wylder’s Hand by Sheridan Le Fanu, and in May, the final arrival of Sherlock Holmes to the series.Ĥ Comments on “The Murders in the Rue Morgue & C. Still, it’s another nice edition from the Crime Classics range. More information about the source of the story of Marie Rogêt, apparently based on a real crime in New York, would have been interesting, as would more on the place of these stories within the early development of the detective story. Although he does an admirable job of condensing Poe’s life story, it would have been interesting to have more analysis of the stories themselves. Here, I felt a little let down by Robert Giddings’ Case Notes. There’s fairly little action and event in these three stories, most of all in Marie Rogêt, which reads more like an essay, or maybe a lengthy letter on the theory of ratiocination. Each tale presents the mystery in a fairly straightforward fashion, and then gives way to a lengthy monologue from Dupin in which the clues are unravelled and the culprit, or at least a lead, is uncovered. The primary difference between the Dupin setup and the Holmes stories may be the lack of actual story in Poe’s work. The Prefect makes a brief request for help in that story, but it’s only in the third story, The Purloined Letter, that the entreaties of a baffled policeman actually form a part of the storyline. The manner of their involvement with the crimes varies: in Murders in the Rue Morgue, Dupin is a disinterested observer, piecing together the clues through newspapers and a single visit the crime scene, and through newspapers alone in The Mystery of Marie Rogêt. The setup is not wildly different to the one that Conan Doyle would later employ for Sherlock Holmes: the stories are narrated by a companion, who meets the detective in the first story, and arranges to share rooms with him. Such was their hunger, Doyle ended up being very well-paid indeed - and Holmes and Watson defied the death he had sent them to, and ended up retiring instead.īut what's the best way to read them? Here's our take on the essential way to navigate the Sherlock Holmes stories.I’ve been revisiting the Atlantic Crime Classics range lately, taking a look at their February title, a new edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin stories, collected under the title of the first and most famous tale, The Murders in the Rue Morgue.Ĭoming before Sherlock Holmes but after Vidocq, the Dupin stories are a vital early link in the development of detective fiction: The Murders in the Rue Morgue itself is often regarded as the first modern detective story. So Doyle turned to financial incentive in lieu of creative stasis, urging publishers to cough up for more Holmes stories. He takes my mind from better things." His mother - inadvertedly representing the voices of fiction fans the world over - was outraged. It even got to a point that Doyle himself was sick of his creation, writing to his mother in 1891: "I think of slaying Holmes. Nevertheless, he was no great age when he created the character who would make him famous as a writer - he was 27, and wrote A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's debut, in just three weeks.įrom that humble beginning, three Sherlock novels and five collections of short stories emerged. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Holmes in 1887, in the midst of a career as a doctor and botanist. Auguste Dupin and Monsieur Lecoq haven't become quite such familiar household names. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes isn't the first fictional detective to grace bookshelves, but C.