> Inspector Dupin
His name is C. Auguste Dupin, and he is not an inspector, nor is he ever called that. Sloppy research of this type makes everything else in the article rather suspect.
His name is C. Auguste Dupin, and he is not an inspector, nor is he ever called that. Sloppy research of this type makes everything else in the article rather suspect.
How so? The link goes to https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/edgar-allan-poe-in...
> which is based on the book
What book? It's based on the work of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jörg_Bong
By the way, he didn't even get Edgar Allan Poe's name right.
(I run Why is this interesting? and edited the piece.)
Edgar Allan Poe invented the murder mystery genre we know today
with Inspector Dupin, a purveyor of “ratiocination,” or intensive reasoning
— who was introduced to the world in The Murders on the Rue Morgue.
Now the link is about the TV movie "Inspector Dupin" which is based on German novels published in the last decade and unrelated to The Murders on the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe or the invention of the murder mystery genre we know today.