This character relates a story about the real-life doctor John Abernethy, who, when asked for a medical opinion, told a friend to take advice instead of medication. He claims that an example of narrow thinking is to claim all poets are fools, using as an example a boy who understood people so well that he won all of his school's marbles playing odds and ends. This character places an ad in a newsp
This character relates a story about the real-life doctor John Abernethy, who, when asked for a medical opinion, told a friend to take advice instead of medication. He claims that an example of narrow thinking is to claim all poets are fools, using as an example a boy who understood people so well that he won all of his school's marbles playing odds and ends. This character places an ad in a newspaper that is answered by a (*) sailor who has lost an exotic pet from Borneo. This man retrieves a document that was stolen by the blackmailer Minister D; by observing witnesses who claim that a murderer was speaking different languages, he deduces that the culprit of a double homicide was an Orangutan. For 10 points, name this crime solver who appears in the Edgar Allen Poe stories "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
This character relates a story about the real-life doctor John Abernethy, who, when asked for a medical opinion, told a friend to take advice instead of medication.
C. Auguste Dupin [accept either underlined name]