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#607: Little Fictions/Going Home – The Crime Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1844)

December 17, 2019June 3, 2020 / JJ / 3 Comments

For this, the third week of examining the hugely influential crime stories of Edgar Allan Poe, we come to the last of the tales to feature his genius amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin.

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#604: Little Fictions/Going Home – The Crime Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’ (1842)

December 10, 2019December 31, 2019 / JJ / 12 Comments

Another week, another cornerstone of the detection genre as laid by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe.

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#601: Little Fictions/Going Home – The Crime Stories of Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841)

December 3, 2019December 31, 2019 / JJ / 12 Comments

Sometimes my Tuesday posts are themed as Little Fictions, wherein I look at short stories; back in May I did a month themed around the origins of my detective fiction obsession called Going Home. This month it’s a Megazord comprised of both, looking at short stories that formed the origins of detective fiction…and there’s only one place to go for that.

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#592: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 1: The Criminal

November 12, 2019July 27, 2021 / JJ / 13 Comments

So, here we go with an in-depth look at the principles espoused in the Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction as outlined by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox.

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