C. Auguste Dupin

One, this book is, in many ways, the first full-length, novel-length mystery thriller.

Famously, the modern detective genre was invented by Edgar Allan Poe in a series of short stories featuring the detective Auguste Dupin, but The Woman in White represents the first attempt in English literature to write a full-length detective novel.

In this story, Our main character, Walter Hartwright, get it? Because he's an upright young man with a good heart.

All of the characters have these very on-the-nose names, which is very Dickens, very Victorian.

And they resent being pinned down and categorized as just this one thing, right? So with A.A.

Milne, he disliked being known as a children's author.

In the case of Conan Doyle, he disliked being known as a detective author.

If you're the kind of author who is capable of creating an immortal character, I think it stands to reason that you are someone of many talents and many tastes.

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forward of masterpieces of mystery detective stories this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by michelle eaton masterpieces of mystery detective stories compiled by joseph lewis french Note, the editor desires especially to acknowledge assistance in granting the use of original material and for helpful advice and suggestion to Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University, to Mrs. Anna Catherine Green-Rolfs, to Cleveland Moffat, to Arthur Reeve, creator of Craig Kennedy, to Wilbur Daniel Steele, to Ralph Adams Cram, to chester bailey fernald to brian brown to mrs lillian m robbins of the publisher's office and to charles e farrington of the brooklyn public forward the honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an american writer such tales as the purloined letter and the murders in the rue morgue still stand unrivalled we in america know more than the world of letters at large did not readily realize what poe had done when he created auguste dupin the prototype of sherlock holmes et genus omnis up to the present hour On Poe's work is built the whole school of French detective story writers.

Conan Doyle derived his inspiration from them in turn, and our American writers of today are helped from both French and English sources.

It is rare enough to find the detective in fiction even today, however, who is not lacking in one supreme quality, scientific imagination.

Auguste Dupin had it.

dickens had he lived a short time longer might have turned his genius in this direction the last thing he wrote was the mystery of edwin drood the mystery of which is still unravelled i have heard the opinion expressed by an eminent living writer that had dickens life been prolonged he would probably have become the greatest master of the detective story except poe the detective story heretofore has been based upon one of two methods analysis or deduction the former was poe's to take the typical example the latter is conan doyle's of late the discoveries of science have been brought into play in this field of fiction with notable results the most prominent of such innovators indeed the first one is arthur reeve an American writer whose black hand will be found in this collection, which has endeavoured within its limited space to cover the field from the start.

The detective story, wholly the outgrowth of the more highly developed police methods, which have sprung into being within little more than half a century, being only so old.

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is the final episode of our Edgar Allan Poe series.

The very clever Auguste Dupin is about to dissect the scene of a terrible and gruesome crime, the murders of two women.

A man has already been arrested, but Dupin's not so sure he's the real culprit.

And something tells me he might be right.

Here again, the murders in the Rue Morgue.

And speaking as we begin is Auguste Dupin.

Let us now transport ourselves to this chamber.

What shall we first seek here? The means of exit employed by the murderers.