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Edgar Allan Poe, creator of the detective-hero C. Auguste Dupin. The blurring of fiction and reality in early detective novels. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and how true-to-life he seems to readers. Doyle's focus on the process of knowledge. Sherlock's continual questioning of Watson's--and thus of readers'--observations. Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret, Simenon's plots as explorations of French life and people.
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