Irwin mirrors the aesthetic impact of the genre by creating in his study the dynamics of a detective story-the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together.
John Irwin brilliantly examines the deeper significance of the analytical detective genre which Poe created and the meaning of Borge's efforts to 'double' the genre's origins one hundred years later.
