Who invented the deductive method of investigation?
Sherlock Holmes?
Not at all: the first legendary amateur detective of world literature, the hero of the stories of Edgar Alan according to – Auguste Dupin.
He is a recluse and intellectual. He investigates mysterious and cruel crimes, without leaving his cozy Parisian apartment.
He operates with facts, evidence and witness indications – and draws conclusions …
Who took the life of a charming girl?
Who arranged a monstrous massacre on Morg Street?
Who abducted a letter that can change the fate of Europe?
Duepen’s deductive method acts without fail …
Edgar Alan Po is a classic of American literature of the XIX century. He stood at the source of many literary genres and directions – mysticism and “horror literature”, symbolism and surrealism. But an individual place in E. A.’s work is occupied by stories that brought him the worldwide glory of the founder of the detective genre.
Author
According to Edgar Allan
Translator
Halperina Releska Menasyevna, Bernstein Inna Maksimovna, Kinkis Viktor Alexandrovich + another 4
Publisher
Astrel, 2012
Series
American detective: Best
Genre
Classical foreign prose
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