I'm not that pushy... I can live with the Poe
reference.
Anita
>On Sat, 1 May 1999, "Joe Hoffman"
<ljhoffman@worldnet.att.net> who is
>really Anita, wrote:
>
>> Although I am sure I will probably garner more
rotton eggs for
>> elaborating, (maybe not), Edgar Allen Poes
"Murder in the Rue
>> Morgue", was the first impossible-crime locked
room
>> detective story.
>
>Unless, like Dot Sayers, one tries to push the
detective genre back to
>classical and biblical times (makes it respectable,
see?). Accepting
>that 'detective fiction' can exist prior to 'the
detective' one might
>then allow the biblical Daniel to be the solver of the
first locked room
>mystery in Bel and the Dragon [from the
apocrypha].
>
>ED
>
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