Literary murders are as old as the book of Genesis. But no one before Edgar Allan Poe, as far as we know, ever wrote a story in which the central plot question was "who did it?" and the hero was a detective [C. Auguste Dupin] who correctly deduced the answer to that question.
William G. Tapply, The Elements of Mystery Fiction, 1995
William G. Tapply, The Elements of Mystery Fiction, 1995
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