Daisy's review of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1-3) (original) (raw)

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Daisy's Reviews > The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales (C. Auguste Dupin, #1-3)
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It’s lucky Poe was long dead by the time Sherlock Holmes was published otherwise I think Conan-Doyle would have had a lawsuit on his hands. The premise is almost identical, a narrator close to the detective narrates events often asking, on behalf of the reader, to explain how the great mind deduced the truth in a mystery that has perplexed everyone. We have policemen who have explored all other avenues and have had to entreat Dupin to help them which of course he does and solves the case by noticing and connecting things that had previously been overlooked.
Respect is due for it being the first detective novel but I am sure there are numerous examples of an idea being taken wholesale and improved so that it ends up better than the original, I can’t think of any right now but imagine I did – that’s what I’m likening this to.
Dupin was not a very interesting character and I couldn’t get along with the endless newspaper articles being used as a device to explain the crime and subsequent investigation up to the point Dupin becomes involved. Another negative was the inconclusive ending of the Marie Roget tale.
Glad I read it as a piece of literary history but didn’t love it as a piece of fiction in its own right.

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April 16, 2019 – Shelved as:to-read

January 22, 2023 –Started Reading

January 24, 2023 –Finished Reading

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message 1: by Yules (new)

I was just looking the other day at this quote from the end of “The Purloined Letter”

“Un dessein si funeste,
S'il n'est digne d'Atrée, est digne de Thyeste”

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