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>From: William Harker <
wharker@verizon.net>
>
>At 02:02 PM 4/20/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>Do you know of an alternative?� Looking around
the net, I can't find
>>any sites that say Dupin isn't the first
fictional detective, merely
>>sites that corroborate the claim.� It would be
nice to know who the
>>first really is.
>>
>>On 4/20/06, Jess Nevins <
jjnevins@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Nor was he the first fictional detective,
and "Rue Morgue" wasn't
>> > the first detective story. But never
mind.
>
>If anyone knows of further early stories, I'd be glad
to hear about them.
>
>Here are the two earliest *American* mystery stories
I have:
>
>"The Murderess" in "The Diary of a Philadelphia
Lawyer," published by
>_Gentleman's Magazine_ (American version -- the one
Poe was to edit
>in the early 1840s), 1837.
>
>"The Murderess" is interesting because it is the
first "chapter" in a
>group of seven that would be published in
_Gentleman's Magazine_ that
>year under the name "The Diary of a Philadelphia
Lawyer".� The first
>chapter is the "whodunnit" chapter and the rest go
through the trial
>and denouement which is rather noirish.
Is this by William Burton? I included his "The Secret Cell"
(also 1837, also GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE) in VICTORIANA but was
never able to locate the promised sequel to it--it's got a
police detective main character who uses his wife as an
information-gathering agent.
jess
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