George,
Re your comment below:
> Well, if you insist...Edgar Allan Poe
invented
> the--if
> not tortured then at least
eccentric--ethical
> intellectual C. Auguste Dupin something like
forty
> years before Doyle invented Holmes. I am not by
any
> means trying to slight Conan Doyle's contribution
to
> detective lit, but Holmes has always seemed to
me
> obviously derived from Dupin.
It was obvious to Conan Doyle, too. In A STUDY IN SCARLET,
Watson tells Holmes that he reminds him of Dupin (although
Holmes bristles at the comparison, we all know it's apt).
Later Conan Doyle, commenting on the influence of Poe, said
that his predeceesor had left mystery writers who followed,
"with no new ground they could confidently call their
own."
JIM DOHERTY
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