Detectives

Nowadays， there are so many detectives（偵探） in fiction that detective stories are considered their own genre（類別）. Where did this genre come from？ Most people think detective stories were created by US writer Edgar Allan Poe（埃德加·愛倫·坡）. His detective was named C. Auguste Dupin， and first appeared in 1841.

In Poe’s stories， Dupin is born into a rich French family. He is skilled at guessing the thoughts of others by noticing the smallest details. He also has a good friend who tells his stories and explains certain details to readers.

Does that sound familiar？ Arthur Conan Doyle used Poe’s style as a blueprint for Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. He was influenced by Poe. Doyle once said， “Each of Poe’s detective stories is a root from which a whole literature（文學(xué)） has developed.”

But Dupin’s way of solving cases is different. He enters the mind of the criminal and then tries to think the same way as the criminal. By knowing everything that a criminal knows， he can solve any crime. Take The Purloined Letter as an example， which is about finding a letter that is hidden by a minister（大臣）. Dupin places himself in the mind of the minister and realizes that the minister would have hidden the letter in the most obvious place.

Another thing Dupin is famous for is that he sometimes solves cases and helps people without getting paid. For example， in one story， Dupin helps a man for free who is charged for a crime he hasn’t done. Perhaps this is one of the reasons he is such a popular character.

1. Who created detective fiction？

2. Why has Dupin become a famous character？

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