🧩 The Birth Of a Genre
Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue is widely considered the first modern detective story.
It introduced C. Auguste Dupin, a brilliant thinker with a calm, rational mind, and laid the foundation for countless detectives to come.
Sound familiar? Conan Doyle admitted Poe inspired Sherlock Holmes.
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Long before Sherlock Holmes, there was C. Auguste Dupin. Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling 1841 tale didn’t just solve a brutal double murder — it invented the modern detective genre. Here’s what made it unforgettable.
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