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  • The Dupin Mysteries

  • By: Edgar Allen Poe
  • Narrated by: Bill Nighy
  • Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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The Dupin Mysteries

By: Edgar Allen Poe
Narrated by: Bill Nighy
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The three tales that make up Edgar Allan Poe's The Dupin Mysteries introduce us to the cracking character of Chevalier Auguste Dupin.

As a rationalist and practitioner of brilliant deduction, he was to become the template for most of the detective fiction that followed speedily in his wake. The first tale, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", details a form of murder solving that was to become only too familiar. Using his extraordinary intellect, Dupin solves a seemingly baffling crime from the clues left by the perpetrator - clues overlooked by mere mortals like the police.

Narrated by his friend and admirer, and documenting an eccentricity that charms the reader into liking what would otherwise be an insufferable arrogance, the stories bear the obvious mark of what was to become the most famous of detectives: Sherlock Holmes. He is very much a Poe creation, with the gore and horror of the murder details described with a relish and a realism not allowed by many other writers.

Public Domain (P)2007 Silksoundbooks Limited
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These mysteries are freely available in text on the internet, so it is possible to refer to the original after listening. Poe was very good at defining analysis, then employing the definition to solve, literally from an armchair, the puzzle. His writing suggests he was not only literate, but schooled in logic, languages, and mathematics. Many of his criticisms of police methods could be said of those today. This is a bargain!

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Spectacular! The best imaginable performance!

Bill Nighy's reading of The Dupin Mysteries is the best imaginable performance of this extraordinary literary work. The timbre of Mr. Nighy's voice lends itself exquisitely to this content. His inflection and intonation bring these pages to life in a manner that is both soothing and compelling, and his pronunciation of French names and phrases is exceptional. I could happily listen to Mr. Nighy read these stories for days.

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