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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes Stories
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 12:03:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 12:03:07 1985
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> In article <441@busch.UUCP> mte@busch.UUCP (Moshe Eliovson) writes:
> >	While I realize Doyle wasn't a plagiarist I was grossly disappointed
> >when I read an Edgar Allen Poe story that was a forerunner of the detective
> >genre of stories of that period.  The story was almost identical to a Sherlock
> >Holmes story except that the flow of logic, facts and setting had been changed.
> 
> For those who like tracing these things down, check out "Zadig", a
> novella-length story by Voltaire (about 100 years before Poe).  Zadig
> is a Babylonian nobleman who uses VERY Sherlockian chains of reasoning
> in one or two places.  .............................................
> 
> 				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo

Alexander Dumas also used this technique in _Vicomte De Bragalonne_,
with D'Artagnon performing the detective work.  A thoroughly
delightful scene, too.

			-- SKZB