![]() Auguste Dupin is considered to the very first armchair-detective and thus laid the foundation for a number of rather famous crime fiction stories. Moreover, Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rôget and The Purloined Letter “ introduce that mainstay of mystery fiction - from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot - the amateur sleuth who solves crimes from the comfort of his armchair” (May 87). He is known as the “father of detection“ (Rzepka and Horsley 22) because “ no set of tales has had more impact on literature and culture in the English-speaking world and beyond.” (Rzepka and Horsley 370). ![]() ![]() Poe “ had been called the inventor of the detective story, by no less an authority than Arthur Conan Doyle ” (Howarth 103). He introduced therewith a new genre which we know today as crime fiction. With The Murders in the Rue Morgue published in 1841 Edgar Allan Poe first introduced his detective C. ![]()
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