While Doyle spurred an entire literature of copycats (most interestingly, the Holmes-eque villain Fantomas, who since his introduction in 1911, had an unlikely second life as a French film franchise widely celebrated in the Soviet Union). Thus began a long dance between the murder mystery’s evolution and the shifting anxieties of people caroming into modernity.
Holmes was introduced in the novella, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, the same year as the Michelson–Morley experiment, the first step toward Einstein’s theory of relativity. While Poe may have invented the genre, Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes did something that the form had never seen-they changed “reason” into “science” and applied it to the art of deduction. When I described murder mysteries in that second sentence, your mind likely jumped to two authors: Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The latter was such a phenomenal success that Netflix recently paid Daniel Craig $100,000,000 to reprise the role in two upcoming films. We’re reminded of how much we delight in the genre when a specific story captivates our collective imagination: Gosford Park, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Knives Out. Since then, we’ve collectively engaged in a 150-year love affair with the cat and mouse of murder mysteries. Auguste Dupin, a purveyor of “ratiocination,” or intensive reasoning-who was introduced to the world in The Murders on the Rue Morgue.
We’re here today to talk murder… well, the genre.Įdgar Allan Poe invented the murder mystery genre we know today with C. He came of age living on a bookshelf in Paris, where he was named a person of interest in a murder on the Seine, and has been trying to make sense of mystery, and all the other things he’s read ever since. Scott Stedman (SS) is an entrepreneur who co-founded Northside Media Group, TOURISTS, and Saturnalia.
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