Auguste Dupin As The Detective In The Purloined Letter By Edgar Allan Poe

When Gayle Wald wrote, “Sayers’s career writing detective stories effectively ends with Gaudy Night” (108), she did not present a new argument, but continued the tradition that Gaudy Night does not center on the detective story.  Barbara Harrison even labeled Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter/Harriet Vane books, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman’s Honeymoon, as “deliriously happy-ending romances” (66).  The label stretches the definition of a romance, but Gaudy Night indeed has very little to do with crime.  Sayers encrypted the real story within her detective novel.  This story behind the story narrates love and human relationships.  In fact, the crimes in Gaudy Night only supply a convenient way for

Miss Seeton find herself embroiled in a police investigation as they investigate a spate of robberies. The chief suspects in the series are the Sherry Gang, who have been pretending to help old people with their shopping before drugging them with spiked sherry. While their victim is out cold, they rob them of anything valuable and make off to rob another victim. Another group has been involved in another type of robbery. The Turpins have revived highway robbery and target coaches full of the elderly that they hold up before robbing passengers of their valuables. Plummergen is the same old village thriving on gossip while the police depend on Miss Seeton to point them in the right direction. The novel is a light mystery read set in a quaint setting that would be an awesome read for the detective thriller or cozy mystery

Edgar Allan Poe was a sick man that went through a troubling life full of tragedies. For Poe to deal with this he drank and poured his feelings into his works. Honestly as horrible it is that he had to go through all of that we should be grateful because without his suffering these masterpieces wouldn’t have been fabricated. While intensifying his philosophy for short stories Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Fall of the House of Usher” reflecting the characteristics of Dark Romantic Movement.

They brought her down to the station to be questioned. There were two people in this tight, dark, eerie room. The police and Miss strangeworth stared intensely at each other for what felt like hours. It was silence but you could hear Miss Strangeworth crying of fear. The officer began to ask simple questions. He started with the ‘who’ of this investigation. “I am the only one writing these letters” she confesses “But I have a letter on almost everyone in this small town.” The officer asks for how long she has been writing these letters

A social criticism in these detective fiction stories from the 19th century is feminists fighting for equality. These stories had men that had expectations of women already, and even when the women would try to help the men, they would assume that the women had no idea about anything involving the crime. They believed women were just wasting time on silly things. Just like in “A Jury of Her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell, Wright is accused of murdering her husband. While five people come to her house, the sheriff, his wife, one of the Mrs.Wright neighbors, his wife, and a county prosecutor. The men are looking for evidence to use against her. The women are collecting personal effects to bring to Mrs.Wright. But they find details that the men couldn’t have found or even noticed. For example, Mrs. Hale was fixing up a sewing that Mrs.Wright did not do well, Mrs. Hale said she did not stitch one or two well. She believed that Mrs.Wright was nervous about something because of the pattern of the sewing, she started off very good and then you can almost see a string being sewed in with frightness. Mrs. Hale explained “the sewing… All the rest of them have been so nice and even but this one. Why it looks as if she did not know what she was about!” (Glaspell 154) Mrs.Hale is probably asking herself why was Mrs.Wright nervous? What could have she heard that made her frightened, or what had happened for her to be frightened enough to mess up her great sewing pattern.

Once again, I got carried away by Agatha Christie's. Everytime I lay my hands across a detective fiction, I'm unstoppable, ready to uncover all the mysteries! As I flip through the pages, my heart beats faster, adrenaline rush through my body as I was slowly taken to the protagonist's world, experiencing terror and fear, while analyzing every single possibilities: who the real murderer is, how to break his perfect alibi, or how to get away unnoticed by him.

In this short story, Dupin portrays the hero detective. However, the way Poe writes Dupin’s character shows that he held some possibly misogynistic views. Joseph Church touches on this issue in his article titled “’To Make Venus Vanish’: Misogyny as Motive in Poe’s ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue.’” Church makes an important point when he states that both Poe and Dupin “work to punish and silence womankind in the world” (409). Dupin does not seem to care about the gruesome murder of the mother and her daughter, he only seems to want the satisfaction of solving the crime and becoming the

Edgar Allen Poe was the very embodiment of the word abandonment.his rollercoaster that only went down started when he was one, his father left he, his siblings, and mother. Poe’s mother, Eliza, died of tuberculosis when he was only three years old. Little didyoung edgar know that she would be the first of many taken away from him by the disease. Poe and his siblings were split up and adopted by different people. Poe was taken in by the Allens, where he was adored by Mrs. Allen and regarded harshly by Mr. Allen. As one could have guess this is where he got his middle name of Allen. When Poe was about fourteen the mother ,Jane Stannard, of his best friend had died of brain cancer. Poe was devastated, after all she was the one who encouraged

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. His parents were traveling actors. Poe had one sister and one brother whose names were Rosalie Poe and William Henry Leonard Poe. His parents, however, died when he was very young. With no parents, he was adopted by a tobacco farmer who was relatively wealthy. His name was John Allan.

“Edgar Allan Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.” (Literary Style of Edgar Allan Poe). Poe was the most important writer of the 19th century. His works scorn the mind and thrill the body. His story lines are majestic and mind-blowing. Poe is most renowned by his dark romanticism and eerie fiction. Poe’s own melancholy life explains his literally style. Edgar Allan Poe is acknowledged today as one of the most brilliant and original writers in American literature, despite his troubled life.

Edgar Allan Poe was an established American author, writer, commentator, and proofreader best known for suggestive short stories and his poems that caught the creative energy and enthusiasm of readers all around the globe. Poe's writing is a testament of his less than stellar life. Throughout his lifetime Poe had no shortage of loss or struggle, starting with the loss of his mother and brother to tuberculosis at a very young age. Tuberculosis claimed a few others of Poe's loved ones, including his cousin and fiancé Virginia, who also was his literary inspiration, and later Frances Allan, his guardian who died while he was away at West Point. After

Mystery and thriller novels, in which Agatha Christie is often considered as the queen of, commonly present a complex and confusing cast of characters which through the efforts of the detective/narrator/reader, then become organised groups of people who are good and bad, who belong to black or white, alibis sorted into two sides of complete contrast. Generally, there are one or two criminals and numerous victims in a typical detective novel. However, in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the cast of characters all have a similar trait: they are all part of a murder case in which the law couldn’t wholly touch. In the novel, Christie presents the central theme, justice, as an ambiguous concept.

Monsieur Dupin solves the mystery and to do so, must take on an entirely new

Dupin goes to D’s hotel room with green spectacles as Dupin explains: “I complained of my weak eyes, and lamented the necessity of the spectacles, under cover of which I cautiously and thoroughly surveyed the apartment, while seemingly intent only upon the conversation of my host” (Poe #). D, being the host Dupin buys enough time to complete his survey and find the location of the letter. Later, Dupin intentionally forgets his snuff box which will give him another opportunity to enter D’s room. And the second time Dupin distracts D to the window there is a man working for Dupin makes gunshot sounds. While D’s attention is outside, Dupin quickly replaces the letter. This form of deception is called Equivocation, where a false appearance is created to deceit someone. The only way that Dupin succeed was that he didn’t expected D to hide that letter which was irregular tactics compared to G’s personal. Dupin rather than telling G where the letter is he himself gets the letter. Then smartly asked G what the reward for the letter is since it was associated with royal family. As soon as G said he would give Fifty thousand francs to whoever finds the letter. At that very moment surprising everyone asks G to write check on Dupin’s name. Hence Dupin capitalized on his work.

As a 20th century work, "A Murder is Announced," was written at a period when the number of Alien residents doubled due to the Second World War. The plot of "A Murder is Announced," is held stable by the fact that characters are invading the tranquility of the idolized small community Of Chipping Cleghorn (Christie, 1950). Christie brilliantly deploys Miss Marples as her detective. Miss Marples plays her role at a time when the Spinster stereotype was high. Unmarried women were considered lonely, nosy and judgmental. Miss Marples is described as a being, “benignant and a good deal older” (Christie, 1950). The cultural beliefs during Miss Marples time situate Miss Marples in a position where she can observe the society as an unnoticed and unimportant character. Miss Marple's ambiguous position at a time when a woman’s role was predominantly domestic gives her peculiar power to move the plot forward and develop important