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The history of a detective genre has deep roots. Different detective plots and elements can be found in references of antiquity and in bible texts. The detective history has arisen simultaneously with the attempts of human consciousness to comprehend the reason of crimes’ perpetration. In this quality it is present at numerous products as a part of the surrounding validity in which struggle of good and evil goes continuously and where norms of a public life are frequently broken.
Despite of it as an independent genre the detective story appeared only in the 19th century because of Edgar Poe and his detective stories " The Murders in the Rue Morgue” which was written in 1841; " The Mystery of Marie Roget " (1842-43) and "The Purloined Letter " which was published in1844. Many critics, scholars, writers and just fans of his literature alike agree that Edgar Allan Poe is indisputably the ancestor of a fictional detective in its basic elements both in American and in the world literature
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The most important strains of Dupin’s character were his observation and ability to draw conclusions on the basis of the analysis of his supervision and remarks. He is one of the most important creations in history of a detective genre on two principal causes.
Undoubtedly, the image of Auguste Dupin had been created by Edgar Poe because of the influence of memoirs of Francois Vidocq. Dupin had specified only the basic version that the police had found the most authentic. The second cause is that Edgar Poe’s three short stories about him, which do not exceed more than one hundred pages, had been written when the detective genre did not exist yet. The researches of English writer Michael Harrison defined that Dupin had been named (and his image is partly based on) in honour of French aristocrat F. The story has been based on a real crime – Marie Roget's murder. That’s why we can explain that Poe called him “ Monsieur” only in the first story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, but “Chevalier” in the next two stories " The Mystery of Marie Roget “ and "The Purloined Letter ". He shows his tricks and comments them. It seems natural that Dupin had turned his talent to unearth different crimes.
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