Andrew Scott, who played Moriarty in the BBC series, portrayed C. Lots of famous Holmes actors read out poems by Poe, for example Basil Rathbone and Benedict Cumberbatch. So we ask the curious detectives to delve into the world of reading and solve the mysteries for themselves. We could go on listing the similarities between the works of the two writers, but we do not want to deprive anyone of the excitement of reading Poe novels. We are beholden to Edgar Allan Poe and his smart sleuth – without them there would be no Sherlock Holmes. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of stories.” Long before that, in the A Study in Scarlet Watson tells the detective: „You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin. In The Adventure of the Resident Patient Sherlock reads out a passage from a Poe novel. He can be considered the predecessor of dr. Namely Dupin has a friend too who writes down his adventures and sometimes accompanies him to the crime scene. In the documentary The Man Who Killed Sherlock Holmes it is stated wrongly that detective duos were born with Holmes and Watson. His books prove that he never needed plagiary. He was a truly ingenuous, productive writer. His historical works are also outstanding. His The Lost World became an inspiration for lots of books and adaptations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a very prolific writer, he penned many non-Sherlock stories. He only pointed out that the author based a story upon a famous magic trick. As an artist and magician, he was rightfully vain and proud of his tricks. Houdini never put Doyle's writing talent into question. In the adventure the letter had been changed to a photograph, and he masterfully made possible for Holmes to wear one of his many disguises. Doyle changed many details in his story, and all the characters and events were his creations. It means that the famous magician recognized that Conan Doyle used a modified version of Poe’s trick from The Purloined Letter in his A Scandal in Bohemia. Dupin is a pleasant storyteller.īy all means we have to nail down that the Houdini plagiary does not refer to monotonous copying. The former is more talkative, but their way of thinking is similar. It is clearly seen from Revati’s description that you just cannot do anything else but love Dupin, if you like the character of Holmes. Their biggest difference is that while Holmes is a real eccentric, Dupin simply lives in recluse. Both are well-educated, literate and both have excellent observation skills. He stresses that the strange is not the same as the mysterious, and you can find the truth by following the line of the unusual.ĭupin is very similar to Sherlock Holmes, they have the same character and social background. His deductions follow the method of reversed thinking, and his aim always is to find out the truth. He states if you find something extraordinary, you have to pay attention to it, because it can easily be the clue. At the same time he admits that sometimes you miss the point by looking too deep – in cases like that it is enough to investigate the surface, or you have to consider the whole image to see clearly. The motto of his method was: „You only have to know one thing: what to observe.” He can solve his cases because he is able to identify himself with the criminal and this way he can look really deep, he sees things that remain unnoticed for superficial observers. He dedicated most of his time to broaden his knowledge. After growing poor he lead a sequestered, thoughtful life, reading was the only passion he sticked to. He studied mathematics, perhaps that is why his thinking is so systematic and deductive. " Dupin’s family was rich, but he lost his wealth. Revati describes Dupin the following way:
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No wonder that this young man, whose life is so full of mystery, who had such a fertile imagination, created Dupin, the detective who solves the oddest mysteries – though Poe himself did not use or write down the term detective. He had a vivid imagination, so you really need lots of CGI for the screen adaptation of his novels. You analyse some of his poems and it is mentioned that he created the genre of detective story.
Our further reasons to do this are the righteousness and the recognition of the oeuvre of Edgar Allan Poe.Įverybody learns a little bit about Edgar Allan Poe in high school. We are fond of him – that is why we would like to dedicate an article to his brilliant predecessor, the sleuth of Edgar Allan Poe: C. Sherlock Holmes is a fantastic detective, who is rightly the most famous crime solver worldwide. Auguste Dupin, the predecessor of Sherlock Holmes
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