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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20040530
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Chevalier Auguste Dupin This mincing Parisienne aristocrat and amateur sleuth remains the first great fictional detective. Created by demented American gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe, Dupin is an emotionless reasoning machine who carries himself with the insufferable arrogance of the always-right, explains his cold logic with patronising, infuriating flourishes ("You will see that I have shifted the question from the mode of egress to that of ingress "), and wears stylish green-tinted glasses because of an acute sensitivity to light. It was Dupin who deduced that the murders in the Rue Morgue ...

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