Электронные книги
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Detective Stories Уилки Коллинз
ISBN: 9781537815152 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Jovian Press Язык: Английский The honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an American writer. Such tales as «The Purloined Letter» and «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» still stand unrivalled. We in America no more than the world of letters at large, did not readily realize what Poe had done when he created Auguste Dupin – the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, up to the present hour. On Poe's work is built the whole school of French detective story writers. Conan Doyle derived his inspiration from them in turn, and our American writers of to-day are helped from both French and English sources. It is rare enough to find the detective in fiction even to-day,…