Round 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, 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 that makes up the story “The (*) Approach to Al-Mu’tasim.” In another story, a man with this profession ascends the villa of Triste-le-Roy after noticing that a rhombus lines up (10[1])with the (-5[1])Tetragrammaton. (10[1])Red Scharlach murders that man with this profession, Erik Lönnrot, 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 profession named C. Auguste (10[1])Dupin? ■END■ (0[1])

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