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6Julian Symons, Bloody Murder, From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History (Hong Kong: Papermac, 1992), pp. 34-35, p. 41.
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8Patricia Merivale, "Gumshoe Gothics: Poe's 'The Man of the Crowd' and His Followers ", in Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detctive Story from Poe to Postmodernism, Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney eds. (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999), p. 112.
9Stefano Tani, The Doomed Detective: The Contribution of the Detective to Postmodern American and Italian Fiction (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984), p. 40.
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