Poe's perfect crimes : hidden plots in the Dupin stories and others /

"The genius of Edgar Allan Poe extends far beyond his groundbreaking creation of Auguste Dupin, which laid the foundation for detective fiction. What remains little known is that Poe envisioned an even more sophisticated form of the genre. Works in this form take an innovative approach, allowin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Takeuchi, Yasuhiro, 1965- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2025]
Subjects:	Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation. Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Characters > Auguste Dupin. Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.

Table of Contents:

A premature revelation: Poe's deliberate error as a clue
Challenging the narrator: His contradictions and inconsistencies
A second corpse: Cracking the perfect murders
A fatal blind spot: The narrator's double in his narrative
Detecting the detective: The ape's double in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Taking turns: "The Purloined Letter" as a game of analogy
The original and the copy: The pitfalls in analysis in Poe's tales of reincarnation.