Poe is amazing: he basically invented detective novels with his character C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Conan Doyle credits this directl

Poe is amazing: he basically invented detective novels with his character C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". Conan Doyle credits this directly in the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet": Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends’ thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour’s silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.