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This paper focuses on the four basic characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories. They are mysterious atmosphere, intriguing plots, familiar characters and particular settings. Then the functions of these characteristics are also presented. Poe tried his best to create the nervous and mysterious atmosphere, which can arouse readers’ first sight loving of the stories by using the crime solving and the puzzles unraveling.
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