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>From: briannthorntonn <
tieresias@worldnet.att.net>
>
>--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Victoria Two
<msvictoriatwo@...>
>wrote:
>>���� American Public Media
>> Subject: The Writer's Almanac for Thursday,
April 20, 2006
>>
>> In 1841, on this day, the first detective story
was published. In
>his story
>> The Murders in the Rue Morgue," published in
Graham's Magazine,
>Edgar Allen Poe created mystery's first fictional
detective, Auguste
>C. Dupin. The story introduced many of the elements
of mysteries that
>are still popular today: the genius detective, the
not-so-smart
>sidekick, the plodding policeman and the use of the
red herring to
>lead readers off the track.
>
>Small but important point here: the name of Poe's
seminal fictional
>consulting detective was "C. Auguste Dupin," not
"Auguste C. Dupin."
Nor was he the first fictional detective, and "Rue Morgue"
wasn't the first detective story. But never mind.
jess
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