Packet 4: Tossup 11

In a story, a man with this profession is given a letter signed “Baruch Spinoza” with a Baedeker map and reads Johann Leusden’s Hebrew Philologus. A jailed barber adopts this profession in a novel co-written under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq, (-5[1])titled Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi. A fictional book about a law student is called Bombay’s first novel about this profession in a review (-5[1])that makes up the story (15[2])“The (*) Approach to Al-Mu’tasim.” (-5[2])In another story, (10[1])a man with this profession ascends the villa of Triste-le-Roy (10[1]-5[1])after noticing (-5[1])that a rhombus (10[1])lines up (10[1]-5[1])with the (10[4]-5[1])Tetragrammaton. (10[7])Red Scharlach (10[2])murders (10[1]-5[1])that man (10[2])with this profession, (-5[2])Erik Lönnrot, (10[2])at the end of “Death and the Compass.” For 10 points, Jorge Luis Borges drew on Edgar Allan Poe’s stories about a man with what (10[1])profession named C. Auguste (10[1])Dupin? (10[2])■END■ (10[8]0[1])

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