The various elements in the stories “The Man of the Crowd” by Edgar Allan Poe and “In a Gove” by Akutagawa Ryunosuke place them in the genres of mystery and/or detective fiction . The usual mysteries or mysteries use suspense and tension to arrive at the resolution of the enigma present in the plot (Turco 58). Detective stories typically involve “following a detective through the solution of a crime” (Baker, Frye, & Perkins, 140). “Man of the Crowd” and “In a Grove” have no suspense or tension. In both stories the mystery or puzzle is ultimately not solved and the identity of the detective is not even known. Therefore, they do not fit perfectly into the typical conventions of crime or detective genres. Instead, the structure of the story itself – the narration and organization of these stories – helps infuse the sense of mystery into the story through multiple narratives and foreshadowing, and the reader becomes the investigative figure who is left to ponder the solution to the puzzle unresolved. in the narrative. This is the underlying theme that unites all the stories of the detective and/or detective genre: a mystery. The narrative itself in Poe's “Man of the Crowd” is saturated with mystery. The first paragraph of the text already talks about an enigma that is an incomprehensible book and people with unspeakable secrets (220). This opening paragraph of Poe's story already foreshadows the end of the story, where the narrator concludes that he will not be able to learn anything about the old man, just like a book that cannot be read (234). Fink also thinks this is an omen, as he states in his article that this paragraph's description of "people who, metaphorically, cannot be 'read'... for... middle of paper... the reader becomes the figure of the detective finds himself with the unsolved and unexplained mysteries present in the narrative. These two stories, although not archetypal examples of the mystery and detective genre, are nevertheless brilliant works that fall into those genres. Works cited Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. by Ryunosuke Akutagawa." Scribd.com., 28 6 2008. Web. 6 April 2014. Baker, Sheridan, Northrop Frye, and George Perkins. The Harper Handbook to Literature. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1985. Print.Fink, Steven. “Who is Poe's “Man of the Crowd?” Poe Studies 44.1 (2011): 17-38. Poe, Edgar Allan. . The Man of the Crowd. Ed. James M. Hutchisson. Peterborough:Broadview, 288-294. Turco, Lewis. London: University Press of New England, 1999. Print.