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While Edgar Allan Poe created the mystery genre, it was Doyle who really popularized it. His Holmes is a cross between Poe's Dupin and his own medical school professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, a genius at forensic deduction who sometimes assisted the police, and like Poe he gives his detective a far less keen foil whom the deductions can be explained to; but he brings Holmes and Watson to much more vivid life as characters than Poe ever did in his detective stories (and of course, wrote a much larger c
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