Auguste Dupin, a brilliant ... More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image. “He comes off instead as a smart guy ...

Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day was the Parkman murder. Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a Frenchman of unusually acute ⁠— if almost "diseased ...

In the beginning, there was C. Auguste Dupin. When Edgar Allan Poe first unleashed the amateur detective on a crime scene in 1841’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the author cracked the ...