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THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES OF ALL NATIONS - J...

....The fact is  meanwhile  that  in the riddle story  the detective was an afterthought  or 
more accurately  a deus ex machina to make the story go. The riddle had to be unriddled  and
who could do it so naturally and readily as a detective? The detective  as Poe saw him  was a
means to this end  and it was only afterwards that writers perceived his availability as a
character. Lecoq accordingly becomes a figure in fiction  and Sherlock  while he was as yet a
novelty  was nearly as attractive as the complications in which he involved himself.
Riddle-story writers in general  however  encounter the obvious embarrassment that their
detective is obliged to lavish so much attention on the professional services which the
exigencies of the tale demand of him  that he has very little leisure to expound his own
personal equation .... Collection of American riddle stories  containing narratives from Edgar
Allan Poe  Nathaniel Hawthorne and many more. Originally published in 1909.

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