... souls in dreams—reading, writing, or conversing, until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness. Then we sallied forth into the streets, arm in arm, continuing the topics of the ... stated in the Gazette des Tribunaux. Dupin scrutinised every thing—not excepting the bodies of the victims. We then went into the other rooms, and into the yard; a gendarme accompanying us The ... of Hammett in the 1930’s and Raymond Chandler in the 1940’s began to have its effect, the puzzle generally remained at the heart of the work. Certainly in the minds of the publishing fraternity,...