![]() ![]() With “ The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Edgar Allan Poe introduced the literary world to a new kind of story: the detective story. But what was the first-ever detective story? And how did the detective story evolve into the popular and dearly loved genre it is today? Before there was ever a Miss Marple, a Hercule Poirot, or a Sherlock Holmes, there was Edgar Allan Poe’s Monsieur C. ![]() There’s mystery, suspense, and crime, and as the reader, you get to play along with the detective as they work to solve the case. So establishes his intention to take revenge against the queen and the minister.Who Was The First Detective? A Brief History Behind One of the Most Loved Genresĭetective fiction is so much fun to read. But the letter be offered for the queen was a false one. During this one month, at the middle, his sketched out the letter visiting the hose of the minister. Thus it is the mastermind of Dupin that becomes able to find out the letter. Dupin then produces the letter before him. The prefect says that he will be gifted fifty thousands francs. There Dupin offers the prefect that at the cost of the letter what he will give to Dupin. After one month when the prefect again fails he visits to Dupin. But here, as that the prefect was confused and went to the minister’s house. After listening the Prefect Dupin advises the prefect to visit once again to the minister’s home and search minutely. Significance of the Title To Helen by Edgar Allan Poeĭupin is about prefect’s method of screening.The prefect was to tell about the case and his unable attempts to find out the letter. The letter was highly confidential and due to its suppressive, the queen and her attendants cannot try to seek the letter openly, they rather try to find out the minister’s house. The letter was stolen from the queen by minister D, the well known politician or better be said an opponent. The narrator of the story, an anonymous friend of Dupin listens all the details about the case after prompting questions and sentences largely from the narrator the perfect takes Dupin the total details. He actually visits Dupin to seek his help in finding a letter of the queen. However, in ‘ The Purloined Letter‘ the police prefect visits to Dupin being failed to solve a simple case. The major crime novel’s plots include one side having policemen and another side the murderer or criminal and in the middle, the detective, the most vital role connecting both sides of the case. In spite of having a tragic past of Dupin being out of his property we accept him to show his sense of cleverness. But in this three stories Dupin has used his special concentration and observation.ĭupin is the hero of the story. In the last story the character Dupin appears in a rare situation and rare atmosphere where he shows that hoe he takes the revenge against the minister and solves the case. In his second story He investigates another murder of a lady in the cigar stall called Mary Rogers whose body has been found by the river side. In the first story of the series he solves the case of the murders of the two characters, both mother and daughter. In three consecutive stories Dupin has played an amazing role of perfection. He has played an anonymous role in the story. He is the anonymous narrator of the story. He lives in Paris with his close friend whose name is not disclosed here. By some unwanted reasons he has been reduced to more humble situation. He is an amateur one who belongs to a wealthy family. Later in his writing as we see Arthur Conan Doyle observed minutely the framing of the mind of his detective in the same frame of Dupin.ĭupin is not actually a professional detective. Actually Dupin through observation thinking mind and argumentation creates a certain atmosphere. The world famous crime fictions irrespective of all other regional language the detectives follow Dupin to some extent. Even Arthur Conan Doyle followed the same theory in making the character of Sherlock Holmes. The theory of ratiocination is a path breaking theory of crime fiction for all other crime fictions. His first story in the series and his last appearance happened in the last story of the series. The character of Dupin was first introduced with his analytical trick in his first story of the crime series. However, when the writer wrote the story the word ‘detective’ must not have been coined. He makes, in silence, a host of observations and inferences.” “But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill of the analyst is evinced. Once in his course of his writing the first story of his detective stories, ‘The Murder in the Rue Morgue‘, he once commented that,
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