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This 5 page paper discusses the new character traits that came into creation with Poe's character, Dupin, and Sir A.C. Doyle's, Sherlock Holmes. Examples given from the text of six short stories by the two authors, cited and quoted. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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it becomes apparent that there is an amateur sleuth to fit any occupation. There are the culinary mysteries, there are the cat mysteries, and there are the bird mysteries. Each
amateur sleuth, it can be said, however, sprang from the similarly odd and bizarre form of detective by Edgar Allen Poe, and later to great extent, Arthur C. Doyle. Their
detectives elevated the mystery story and novel from the category of junk writing to a genre that eventually was hailed as having social merit and redeeming possibilities. Many famous writers
took to creating detective works including Charle Dickens and Mark Twain. That may or may not be the case. But what is certain is that Edgar Allen Poes, C. Auguste
Dupin, made quite the stir when he broke into a three story series. Here was a detective that solved crimes not using just the facts mam but intuition and knowledge
of human nature. What he was able to do and the crimes he subsequently was able to solve seemed no less than miraculous, though plausible. Dupin first appeared in April
1841, when Grahams Magazine published Poes classic horror story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue. He also appeared in "The Mystery of Marie Rog?t(1842-1843), "The Purloined Letter?(1845), and three other
stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority of the artistic perception(when allied with reason), the dark tale of exotic
experience beyond the normal(though not supernatural), the building of suspense. First person is used and true to style it is not the main protagonist who unfolds the tale, but an
acquaintance, in the case of Dupin, it is his faithful sidekick. If Dupin sounds very much like Sherlock Holmes it wouldnt be a trick of the imagination. The characteristics between
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