Which American author is generally regarded as the inventor of modern detective fiction?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne B) Herman Melville C) Edgar Allan Poe ü D) Mark Twain
Poe’s story “The Murder in the Rue Morgue”, published in 1841 in Graham’s Magazine, introduced the detective genre essentially fully-formed, complete with a baffling crime, a genius detective and his slower-witted foil. Poe’s Parisian hero, C. Auguste Dupin, also featured in two later stories, “The Mystery of Marie Roget” and “The Purloined Letter”.
