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 (-5[1])after noticing that a rhombus lines up with the Tetragrammaton. (10[2])Red Scharlach murders that man with this profession, (-5[1])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 Dupin? ■END■ (10[2])

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