C. Auguste Dupin (5 books in series)
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review 1: An Open-Letter to Edgar Allan PoeDear Mr. Poe,I know you probably have a lot of high school students writing to you, complaining about finding symbolism in The Raven or examining the psychology of the narrators in The Black Cat and The Tell Tale Heart. Don't worry. I'm not writin...
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review 1: This book/story I don't remember at all even though when I was in high school I read every Edgar Allen Poe I could get my hands on. There's one scene where the detective is telling Dupin for 7-8 hrs what he thinks happened and Dupin, wearing his colored eye glasses, is asleep. ...
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review 1: Just like classics like Lord Of The Rings, this title is the first milestone in the genre, it was the pioneer, it had set up the rules, the characters. It is the template in the detective fiction- usage of Urban setting, closed-room whodunit scenario, narration by secondary chara...
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review 1: Edgar Allan Poe è per tanti versi l'ideatore del romanzo giallo, o meglio, l'ideatore del romanzo poiziesco, dove il ragionamento e l'intuito fanno da padroni a questa indagine. Si nota subito l'acume di Dupain e grazie al ragionamento ogni cosa è spiegata. Nonostante conoscessi ...
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review 1: 1. Oxford level 22. 10/14=60minutes, 10/15=40minutes3. witnesses, accident, innocent, murders, room, locked, news paper4.(a)He often said, with a laugh, that people had windows in their faces and he could see through them.(B)Reading other people's thoughts is very difficult. How...