![]() ![]() A suggestion to this effect is usually rejected by the intellect at once. Nothing, for example, is more difficult than to convince the merely general reader that the fact of sixes having been thrown twice in succession by a player at dice, is sufficient cause for betting the largest odds that sixes will not be thrown in the third attempt. Gambler's Fallacy: The narrator expresses a belief in this fallacy in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt".Friendless Background: Implied by the narrator's own commentary in the stories, which indicate that he and Dupin are one another's only friends.First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The story is narrated by the nameless Sidekick.Everything else that Dupin discovers, the reader has no way of knowing. In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, for example, the only clue which Dupin and the reader both have is the testimony about "the shrill voice". Clueless Mystery: In all the stories, Dupin's solutions depend on clues that aren't revealed to the audience until the summation, if then.Instead, the narrator claims, whist and draughts do a much better job determining the intelligence of the players There's a long digression in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" heaping scorn on the idea that chess is a measure of intellect.This is tangentially related to the story, but one does wonder if it needed to be explored in such detail. There's a passage of about a page or so in "The Purloined Letter" in which Dupin explains why mathematicians aren't very good at reasoning.He is also a significant figure in the Worlds Align series, also from AMAX Interactive, which crosses Dark Tales with some of the developer's other properties. The 1932 film Murders in the Rue Morgue is based very loosely on the first story.ĭupin is the hero of the Dark Tales video game series, in which he investigates mysteries inspired by Poe's most famous stories (including a couple that actually did have him in them in the first place). The stories are narrated by Dupin's friend and roommate, whose name is never given. Auguste Dupin is the central character of three stories written by Edgar Allan Poe in the 1840s and recognized as pioneering works in the Detective Fiction genre. ![]()
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