Edgar Allan Poe is most renowned for his horror stories, but he is also credited with creating the first detective story. Poe's story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," first published in 1841, follows main character C. Auguste Dupin as he solves the mysterious deaths of two women. Dupin would appear in two more Poe stories, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” and “The Purloined Letter.” Nearly forty-five years after Poe’s death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle popularized the detective story when he created Sherlock Holmes, a character with peculiarities similar to Poe’s Dupin. Like Holmes, Dupin also smoked a pipe, and had a somewhat dim-witted sidekick.
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