razor-mind

Updated: May 15, 2025

His razor-mind was reincarnated a century later as the fascinator of nations M. Dupin. And from Poe's wizard up to Sherlock Holmes, no one of the thousand "detectives," drawn in a myriad scenes that thrill the world of readers, but owes his outlines, at least, to "Zadig."

- Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories