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...The literary critic, poet and author of The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Murders in the Rue Morgue was a pioneer of short stories, Gothic horror, detective novels and science fiction...
...Or perhaps it was felt that Poe’s sleuth Auguste Dupin — the progenitor of all the detectives that followed him — is known only to cognoscenti these days....
...Neither does Bale play Poe, which may be part of the problem. Instead, he is veteran detective Augustus Landor, summoned to West Point military academy in the glacial winter of 1830....
...But Branagh is clearly having fun putting Poirot through a ghoulish filter, complete with skewed Dutch angles, dank secret chambers and pale children reading Poe in the corner....
...“The familiar crime-caper elements with [detective] Colman allow the audience to feel connected and safe....
...Their mutual fondness for the works of Edgar Allan Poe, especially his fictional detective C Auguste Dupin, starts the pair off as amateur sleuths, intent on solving the murders of young women whom nobody...
...Among the principal players in the latter inquiry is a YouTuber and self-proclaimed “armchair detective” known as Ripper Jack....
...Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe’s C....
...However, even with the uncannily good child actor Tommy Finnegan as Troy, the mystery stumbles on the way to its conclusion....
...David Carlyle is a little too mincing as one version of the detective but daunting as the other....
...Also back at school are those intrepid girl detectives of the 1930s, Daisy Wells and breathless narrator Hazel Wong....
...Pierce is best known as Bunk Moreland from the HBO series The Wire — a weary, womanising detective whose mouth could emit cigar smoke and blunt bonhomie simultaneously....
...Highlights included a dramatic “Shipbuilding” at the piano and a paranoiacally noisy “Watching the Detectives” on electric guitar....
...He would try to imitate novels by Edogawa Rampo — one of the country’s most popular mystery writers, whose pen name was derived from the Japanese pronunciation of Edgar Allan Poe....
...An avid reader of Edgar Allan Poe, he compares his marketing efforts to detective work: “looking for traces of potential clients, finding what spots they frequent, like a hunter tracks a rare game to its...
...He said the idea came from a story in Tintin, the Belgian cartoon books that featured the fictional detective and his loyal dog inside a shark submersible. In real life, the venture was draining....
...It has allusions to Edgar Allan Poe and it actually plays by the rules of a detective novel. When did you know you were going to be a writer?...
...Doyle’s addition to Poe’s formula was the master detective’s sensible sidekick, a chalk-and-cheese dynamic that has lasted well, especially when the possibilities for dash and frump, suavity and astonishment...
...Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations, by Charles Nicholl, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 318 pages Charles Nicholl, our finest literary and historical detective, is drawn to subjects of dark human concern and puzzlement...
...The Savage Detectives, 2666 and the novella Distant Star, an expansion of one of the stories here, all transposed the tropes of the detective novel on to literary road trips, and each made convincing efforts...
...The detective investigating soon unearths evidence that this grisly murder is linked to a war between two ancient secret cults, one celebrating laughter, the other despondency....
...Great American Detective Stories Edited by Anthony BoucherCover design by Leo Manso Tower Books, 1945 Schlock, pulp, horror, collage, surrealism, voyeurism – the cover for this cheap book of detective stories...
...Rouletabille rails at detectives who have learnt from Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe....
...Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade are also touchstones. Yet ultimately the book’s most significant forebear may be Moby-Dick, that symphonic masterpiece about the gaping mouth of evil....
...The other class of detective, amateur sleuths, have been sticking their unauthorised noses into crimes that don’t concern them since Edgar Allan Poe’s decadent genius Auguste Dupin solved “The Murders in...
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