Poe is generally credited with inventing the modern detective or mystery story.
Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story, with tales like 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Purloined Letter'. In 'Murders', Poe presents an intelligent but eccentric detective C. Auguste Dupin, who solves crimes through rational thinking. Other famous detectives, e.g. Sherlock Holmes, are based on this character.
Poe started the genre of mystery and detective fiction with his three stories, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter."
Poe developed the genre of detective fiction with the story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the later stories "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and The Purloined Letter" in which there is the recurring character of the detective C. Auguste Dupin.
The modern detective story.
Gothic Fiction
He is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.
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